New label for unconventional Christian artists

A NEW American label has been set up for artists who create music beyond the conventional contemporary Christian parameters. Guitarist virtuoso Phil Keaggy is the premier artist on Word Artisan. Said Word Records' Elisa Elder about Keaggy, "Our community seems to only have an avenue or channel to promote the CCM stuff, and what a tragedy that this amazing talent is in his studio...producing all this stuff, and we are only hearing five per cent of what this man does." Elder says she knew that Windham Hill are other labels were courting Keaggy. "I said, 'We can't let this treasure walk out of our community and go elsewhere!'" Word Artisan will release two Keaggy albums this autumn - a Latin guitar record and a vocal album.