Last week it was announced that my band (Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers) would be headlining musical act on Saturday Night during South Carolina’s Diocesan Youth Conference this March.

This piece of exciting news was enough for me to pull the old electric guitar out of storage and take it to the shop to get re-setup after a few years of rest.

Below is the write-up (hat tip to Matthew Gregory for writing it) from the registration packet mailed to Youth Ministers, Directors of Religious Education, and Priests:

Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers
If St. Francis played Guitar Hero, he’d want to play a track by Bryan Murdaugh with Total Strangers. A Lexington, South Carolina based Catholic rock band, each member of the Godly crüe disguises himself as a mild mannered lad. But one phone booth change later and they become rhythm blasting rock stars. Bryan Murdaugh, an off-the-wall youth minister at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, travels the land as a Eucharistic speaker and leads the band with mad guitar/synth skills and inspiring vocals. When college student Joey Toohey isn’t perfecting his American Sign Language Skills, the St. Louis native is rocking out on guitar. A Department of Energy employee by day, a Berklee-Trained rock star by Night, Bostonian Mike Anzalone wows the crowds with his guitar abilities. The best new media professional/bassist in South Carolina, Michael Ball grew up in Alabama listening to the kind of rock music that involves head banging and some sort of dragon imagery. High schooler Eric Bouchard, the youngest Stranger and the band’s resident Canadian, bangs on the drums all day. When their powers combine with God’s grace, they become a rock and roll army for the Gospel.