{"id":792,"date":"2009-06-24T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T08:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/06\/create-your-own-happy-dance-vi.html"},"modified":"2009-06-24T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T08:32:30","slug":"create-your-own-happy-dance-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/06\/create-your-own-happy-dance-vi.html","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own &#8220;Happy Dance&#8221; Video &amp; Win A Video Camera, iPod, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SyL0RT5brMk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SyL0RT5brMk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object>How fun is this? Brian Bates is hosting a &#8220;Happy Dance&#8221; contest to coincide with his new music video, &#8220;You Danced,&#8221; now being played on national video shows and networks such as Gospel Music Channel, JCTV and Control Track.The contest is open to anyone and the winners will receive a video camera, an IPod and a collection of Bates&#8217; cds\/videos. Contestants are encouraged to videotape their own &#8220;Happy Dance&#8221; to the song &#8220;You Danced,&#8221; upload it to YouTube and submit an entry form at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brian-bates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Bates&#8217; website.  <\/a><!--more-->Several radio stations and networks have begun promoting the &#8220;Happy Dance&#8221; contest to their listeners so get your video cameras and let&#8217;s get dancing! The deadline for entries is July 24 and winners will be announced on July 31.  All entries will be featured on Brians&#8217; website and YouTube page. In addition to awarding prizes to consumers, Bates is offering a free concert to the radio station that promotes the contest and receives the most entries from its listeners. For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/brian-bates.com\/happydance\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Dance page Brian&#8217;s website.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/free-christian-music-download-26.html\" target=\"_blank\">The song &#8220;You Danced&#8221; was inspired by Bates&#8217; <\/a>recent trip to Bo, a southern province of Sierra Leone, Africa and his partnership with World Vision. The Mission Bo project was birthed from Bates&#8217; desire to make a dramatic impact on a specific group of people.<strong>RELATED POST<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/christian-artist-brian-bates-s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christian artist Brian Bates shares his thoughts on how to respond to Ray Boltz, Clay Aiken coming out of the closet<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joannebrokaw\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fun is this? Brian Bates is hosting a &#8220;Happy Dance&#8221; contest to coincide with his new music video, &#8220;You Danced,&#8221; now being played on national video shows and networks such as Gospel Music Channel, JCTV and Control Track.The contest is open to anyone and the winners will receive a video camera, an IPod and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-music-contests","category-christians-involved-in-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Create Your Own &quot;Happy Dance&quot; Video &amp; Win A Video Camera, iPod, More - Gospel Soundcheck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/06\/create-your-own-happy-dance-vi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Create Your Own &quot;Happy Dance&quot; Video &amp; Win A Video Camera, iPod, More - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How fun is this? 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