Having gone to Ireland on a missions trip several years back, I fell in love with this beautiful green grass-carpeted country and its people. That's why when I heard about BlueTree, a worship band hailing from Belfast, Ireland, I was excited to hear their upcoming CD, God of This City (Lucid Artist/Lucid Artist) scheduled to release March 3. So, I visited their MySpace page and started sampling their upcoming CD.

I was surprised that I already knew one of their songs, “God of This City.” We sing it at the church I attend. But, I wasn't surprised by the fact the anthemic song debuted already on Chris Tomlin's Hello Love (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG Distribution) CD this past fall. In fact, BlueTree's sound is very much in the vein of Chris Tomlin and other Passion worship movement artists such as Charlie Hall and Matt Redman, except it has a wee bit more of a rock-tech edge.

Apparently after Tomlin heard the song “God of This City” while he was visiting Ireland, a partnership was eventually forged and the song became a vital part of the Passion worship conferences world tour and of course part of Tomlin's most recent CD.

For more information on this up-and-coming group or to sample songs from their new CD, visit their Web site.