Sentence examples for church bands from inspiring English sources

Mr. Martinez nurtured his sons' musical interests from their preteenage days, using them as percussionists in a band at the Luke 4 18 Church in Washington Heights, where he was a pastor, then lending their services to other area church bands.

Growing up, Lex drummed in church bands, then got his hands on a PlayStation game called MTV Music Generator 3, which had an interface not unlike the Fruity Loops program.

When liberal Muslims joined Coptic Christians as they marched through Cairo's Maspero area on Oct. 9 to protest the burning of a Coptic church, bands of conservative Muslim hooligans wielding sticks and swords began attacking the protesters.

By age 17, Wyclef wore multiple musical hats — in church bands, the school jazz and choir bands, and a rap group — but hip-hop was more than mere music.

Wyclef's musical outlet was the church, where he and his siblings became "a Haitian-American Partridge Family" and then "the Beatles of the church bands in New Jersey," slyly smuggling secular music onto sacred ground by peppering popular rock songs with Jesus references.

Rubén Díaz Sr., the Bronx state senator, Pentecostal minister and steadfast opponent of same-sex marriage, gathered his flock on Sunday for a rally on the steps of the monumental Art Deco courthouse in the Bronx, serenaded by church bands and an ear-piercing soundtrack of Latin song.

Wayman idolized the bass players in the church band.

"But I had church band practice the same day.

I started drumming as a kid in a church band.

Cheatham grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and started playing when he was fifteen, in a little church band for kids.

He is Our Shepherd's third-millennium preacher, having, among other things, introduced the electric guitar to the church band.