3BM is proud to tell the story of how we came to represent the Baileys in Denmark! Here are some headlines on David M. Bailey and his farther Kenneth E. Bailey:

• You can find more about singer, songer and songwriter David M. Bailey HERE
• 3BM sells David’s CDs: click HERE
• 3BM organized concerts with David M. Bailey in Denmark November 3-5 during his Tour as lead artist for The International Brain Tumor Alliance (see report David in Denmark). Ticket entree fees for a concert in support of www.hjernetumor.dk is donated to establish the first network focusing on the needs of braintomor patients in Denmark. This concert officially marked the end of David. M. Baileys tour to England, Sweden and Denmark in advocy of braintumor patients, caretakers research on behalf of http://www.theibta.org/. 
• In June 3BM released a Danish translation of Open Hearts in Bethlehem originally published by Westminster/John Knox (click HERE). This special product combines the novel interpretation of the natitivity story in Luke 2 by Kenneth E. Bailey with the folk music of his son David M. Bailey. This product unites the passion of 3BM to convey a Christian message of hope in play and song!
• There is a wonderful interview with Kenneth E. Bailey in English, but with Danish subtitles on the DVD version of the The Prodigal in Danish (in Danish Den Fortabte Søn på DVD, cf. in English http://cdbaby.com/cd/revdrbailey10).  

Read the personal experience of 3BM Director Nicolai Winther-Nielsen who participated in the first Walk Around the World for Brain Tumor in England in October 2007.

Nicolai and his wife Margrethe traveled to Surrey south of London to attend the concerts with David M. Bailey.

Nicolai has known Kenneth E. Bailey for 10 years, but he has also come to appreciate his son David M. Bailey – survivor after a brain tumour in 1996 and a great singer who writes songs about life and hope. Since he likes David's music and message, he went to London for concerts, when David was the main attraction for the first International Brain Tumour Walk Around the World tour.

Kathy Oliver, Secretary of the International Brain Tumor Alliance (http://www.theibta.org/), invited the Winther-Nielsens to come to England. Here is Nicolais personal account from the tour:

Kathy had arranged for a friend to pick us up by car in Gatwick and host us when we arrived by the early flight in the morning of October 26. We then went over to the RoyalMarsdenHospital, leading British cancer hospital, for a lunchtime gig in their chapel. For the first time I met David and experienced his fascinating music and personality.

David afterwards in his david m. bailey news, , Volume 10 #1 November 2007 wrote about this event:

“I was delighted to see in the hospital audience 2 very special people who had flown in from Denmark that morning just for the concert. Nicolai Winther-Nielsen and his wife.  Nicolai had previously tried to book me for a show in Denmark but the stars never lined up properly. I was touched by their effort to come and see me and, while many others over the years have made Herculean efforts to get to a concert, I think they might have taken over the award for longest trip/greatest effort.  And, Denmark may happen next year after all. “

Margrethe and I were invited for lunch at the home of Kathy Oliver and David sung happy birthday for me. How exceptional all this was.

Later that day we went to the Children's Trust in Tadworth Court. My sister Birte (http://www.simply-scandinavian.co.uk/) had arrived by then and I was eager for her to hear our world famous singer. We found ourselves in a room full of wheelchairs and severely brain-damaged kids. Something extraordinarily happened before our eyes. We could see David being intensely touched by the severely hit kids. We could also feel these kids slowly reviving as David sung his music into their hearts. David writes:

“It was absolutely the hardest gig I have ever done in my entire life… I went through a wider range of emotions than anything I'd ever known before.  First I felt like a hypocrite, then I felt blessed, then I felt crushed then I felt joy, then commitment, then anguish, and so on.  There was a great deal of commotion from a few of the kids who were making quite a bit of excited sounds I would kinda close my eyes, play through the noise, then open them and look up and some child or adult would skewer me with a look of hope or loss. For the first time in a long time, I questioned how my loving God could allow this kind of tragedy to innocent kids. Three times I almost completely lost it, then immediately felt guilty about feeling so inept and imagined God in the room crying with me….Then something almost spooky happened - I began to play "Right Now"  [from the bittersweet album)  and the whole room got quiet.   For thos of you not familiar with the song, it begins with "Right now, someone wants to be with you,"  And finally ends with "Right now, someone is right here."  - I was choked up the entire song, torn between the harsh reality that these kids were on the one hand, forgotten and abandoned by the world and the beautiful reality that the adults in the room who had committed themselves to caring for these broken children were among the bravest and most amazing folks I'd ever met. I also pictured them all sitting at God's Great forever banquet feast  and me showing up hungry and God asking the kids - do you remember this guy?   I hope they do.”

I quote this extensively, because I would kind of hope I could convey some of my impressions of this special hour - an eternal moment in a life, if you like. I feel I was as close to the problem of pain and the reality of incarnation as I may ever be. I wished you had all been there and gone through these turbulent feeligns. You would know that there is pain and you would sense that there is hope. You would also know that there are artists  - and then there are messengers. This special hour may not be world history, but in some ways I think I was locked in one Great Moment beyond imagination.