Dr. Randall A. Bayne
- creative co-writer, Holy Fire!
Presently, he is Co-Founder and CEO of Christian Music Presenters, Inc. of Nashville, Tennessee. This marketing company endorses and works with over 250 Christian artists. This company has presented concerts at the White House and Carnegie Hall. He is the architect of the American Gospel Music concept. He is a much sought after consultant in the Christian music industry.
Dr. Bayne is a native of Greenville, South Carolina. He holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Music Education from Lander University, a Masters of Church Music from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Divinity from Cathedral University. Although he has taught on the secondary and collegiate level, he has primarily served as a Minister of Music in Lutheran, Presbyterian and Baptist churches in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Texas.
His musical compositions are published by Genovox Press and Hal Leonard Music Publishing and have been performed by such noted groups as the United States Army Band, The Dallas Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, and National Symphony and Chorus. In addition, he has produced family oriented shows at the Forum Theater in Myrtle Beach that featured Steve Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers fame, as well as, a family sitcom pilot from PAX TV. He is also a southern-fiction author.
Pam Inabinet Bailey
- creative co-writer, Holy Fire!
Ms. Bailey wrote and directed the interactive children’s play, Under the Western Sky, for Overall Kids Music in Nashville. She co-wrote Cinderella, Bo Peep and Other Defining Women- a children’s musical, and created original dance works based on Alice In wonderland and Red Riding Hood for a performance company she founded to benefit children’s charities. Ms. Bailey has choreographed several shows for Steve Gatlin as well as choreographing segments for the Miss America Pageant. She performed in Industrial Shows in Atlantic City for the Toni and Gillette companies. She toured with a USO troupe performing in Vietnam and Thailand. And she has also choreographed for the Scotland Fringe Festival. Her recent director credit is “CATS" for Town Theatre, SC.
Ms. Bailey has a BA degree in Theatre, Speech and Drama, Columbia College and has conducted numerous workshops in movement study and dance throughout the Southeast including Columbia College, SC.
The Divine Playhouse is a performing arts school Ms. Bailey founded and currently directs. She has written several original one-act plays and children’s works. She enjoys working with underprivileged kids through arts enhancement.
Bonnie Nichols
- Singer and Songwriter, Holy Fire!
Bonnie Nichols is a singer/songwriter from Soldotna, Alaska. She is published on two Grammy-finalist children’s albums; “A Child’s Gift of Lullabyes," and “Snuggle Up; A Gift of Songs for Sweet Dreams," with J. Aaron Brown of Nashville, TN. She has written a variety of children’s and adult contemporary music and special interest music for television. Her latest independent release is in the adult country/gospel genre and is titled “I’ve Got Something To Say". About.com reviewer Jack Lowe writes, “This is what country music is all about." For more information go to: www.bonnienichols.com
Bonnie has been honored as the State of Alaska’s First Lady’s Volunteer of the Year for the work she has done to help social causes through her music. Her song “New Beginning" has been shared nationally through engaging her as a speaker and vocalist to build a greater awareness for organ and tissue donation. She also wrote an immunization campaign song for the State of Alaska called “Kids Otter Be Immunized", that has been shared with Minnesota and Tennessee.
When not writing and performing she acts as the Director of Public Relations and Marketing for Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska.
Greg Sims
- Arranger and Orchestrator, Holy Fire!
Greg Sims is an award-winning composer, arranger, orchestrator and producer for film, television and album projects. His most recent film project was composing, orchestrating, and producing the score for Genesis Orlando’s first digitally animated feature Tugger, The Jeep Who Wanted To Fly starring Jim Belushi. Past film projects include composing the score for PGA Hall of Fame’s Magic Moments for which he won a Silver Addy award, Universal Studios Barcelona Seafari and Kennedy Space Center’s International Space Station LC39.
Greg composes and produces music regularly for Harpo Productions and the Oprah Winfrey Show. As vice-president of and composer/producer for the PowerHouse Music Library, Greg’s music has been broadcast on many U.S. television shows including Friends, ABC Monday Night Football, and Days of Our Lives, as well as various programming throughout Western Europe, Canada and Australia.
Greg served as Arranger-in-residence for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra while residing in Orlando, Florida. In 1995, he co-founded World Time Music, a scholastic jazz combo music series distributed by the Hal Leonard Corporation. He arranges often for various Broadway singers including Davis Gaines (leading role in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway for ten years), Laurie Gayle Stephenson (The Secret Garden and Phantom of the Opera), Ted Keegan (Sweeney Todd), and Connie Kunkle (Les Miserables and Singin’ In The Rain). Greg’s orchestra arrangements have been performed by such notable orchestras as the Cincinnati Pops, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Florida West Coast Symphony.
Greg has produced and arranged music for over 30 albums, including two album projects for Country recording artist and wife Annie Sims (Aspirion Records). He is currently partner and executive producer of MyMusicSource, a web-based distributor and licenser of production music and the music of independent artists, and lives with his wife in Nashville, Tennessee.
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