Archive for the year 2011

GMA Announces Immerse 2012, July 23-25

IMMERSE, the Gospel Music Association’s Music Training Experience, is pleased to announce the fourth annual event, to be held July 23-25 at Rocketown in Nashville, TN. An opening night worship event will be held July 22 to kick off IMMERSE and start participants with a time of inspiration and focus. For the first time, all [...]

Show Hope’s 3rd Annual Spring Celebration Presents Rodgers And Hammerstein’s Enchanted Edition of “Cinderella”

To help advance Show Hope’s™ mission of caring for the most pressing needs of orphans around the world and to commemorate the life of Maria Sue Chapman, a star-studded cast is teaming up with the Nashville Symphony to present the classic musical, Rodgers And Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Enchanted Edition, for the third annual Show Hope Spring [...]

Tenth Avenue North’s “You Are More” No. 1 Song of the Year on Billboard’s Christian Audience Chart

Dove Award-winning, progressive pop band Tenth Avenue North finishes out its most successful career season to date with the No. 1 Christian song of the year, “You Are More,” according to Billboard’s National Christian Audience Chart. Having secured a spot on one of this year’s biggest tours, while performing for close to 500,000 fans nationwide, [...]

The LA Dream Center partners with KKLA-FM to give homes to 12 families by Christmas Eve

The Los Angeles Dream Center has launched a “Home for the Holidays” program which will provide fully furnished living spaces to 12 homeless mothers and their children by Christmas Eve as well as renovate 20 other rooms for families already living in the building. The center has converted the former “Queen of Angels Hospital” into [...]

Music Legend Andraé Crouch Counts Dyslexia A Blessing That Helped Garner Grammy Award Nod For His Latest Project, The Journey

Nine-time GRAMMY ® Award Winner and music legend Andraé Crouch recently discussed dealing with dyslexia as a songwriter in an Associated Press interview about the release of his fastest-selling CD to date, The Journey. The Journey received a GRAMMY ® Award nomination, and is now being offered in the “My Life, My Music, My Journey” [...]

Cornerstone Festival Announces A New Look And New Pricing

Cornerstone Festival, the church’s most diverse celebration of Christians in art and culture, has a new look and a new pricing structure. To the seasoned attendees, the festival might take on a vintage feel. For the past 29 years, faith-filled attendees of all ages, styles and denominations have made the pilgrimage to the hills of [...]

Worship Duo All Sons & Daughters Return With Reason to Sing EP on January 17

Hailed by Worship Leader magazine as“the most enchanting sound emerging in the worship genre,” All Sons & Daughters, the Franklin, Tennessee-based duo of Leslie Jordan and David Leonard, returns in 2012 with a second digital EP, Reason to Sing, followed their first full-length album, Season One. Working again with renowned producer Paul Mabury (Hillsong/Brandon Heath/One [...]

John Waller Signs With H20 Artist Agency

John Waller, the popular recording artist who touched the world with his song “While I’m Waiting” from the hit film Fireproof, and whose current single “As For Me And My House” is on the Top 10 Courageous movie soundtrack, has signed for exclusive booking worldwide with H2O Artist Agency, founded by veteran Christian music industry [...]

Gungor to Headline Spring “Ghosts Upon The Earth” Tour

Just days after scoring their third GRAMMY ® nomination, Gungor is announcing a headlining tour sponsored by long time supporters Relevant Magazine. With stops in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and more, the “Ghosts Upon the Earth Tour” will launch March 1 in Austin, TX and feature special guest The Brilliance. To purchase tickets [...]

Seventh Day Slumber Celebrates Release and Successful Tour

Last month, Seventh Day Slumber released their eighth studio album The Anthem of Angels to much acclaim along with their successful “Small Town America Tour.” The album debuted at the iTunes Top Christian Albums chart at No. 4. In addition the Rock single, “Never Too Far Gone” is currently in the Top 20. Since 2005 [...]

Aaron Shust Has Longest Running #1 Hit in 2011 “My Hope Is In You” Eight Weeks At Top Spot On AC Monitor Chart

A hearty congratulations are in order for Centricity Music’s Aaron Shust for reaching a career milestone. Shust’s single, “My Hope Is In You,” this week became the longest running #1 song in 2011 on the AC Monitor chart, which remained in the top spot for eight weeks. The single also was #1 on the iTunes [...]

David Crowder*Band to Debut Final, Epic Collection of 34 Songs January 10

After twelve years of making music, including six studio projects, participation in over 21 compilations and additional recordings, two books and over 1.6 million albums sold, the GRAMMY ® recognized David Crowder*Band will unveil their seventh and last record, Give Us Rest or (a requiem mass in c [the happiest of all keys]) on January [...]

for KING & COUNTRY Releases Debut Record on Feb. 28

With American Songwriter recently raving that they are “Australia’s answer to Coldplay,” Australian duo for KING & COUNTRY (Joel and Luke) are proving to be one of the most exciting debut acts of the year. The brothers continue to gain momentum as they set the release of their debut record, Crave, available everywhere February 28. [...]

Bebo Norman Celebrates #1 Inpso Radio Song “I Hope You See Jesus”

This week signature lyricist Bebo Norman celebrated a No. 1 INSPO single with his heartfelt song “I Hope You See Jesus” from his critically acclaimed album Ocean. This song can be heard here. Released last year, Ocean was touted as Bebo’s “finest effort,” one of the “top overall album(s) of 2010,” and “beckons you into [...]

2012 Rock & Worship Roadshow Line-Up

The “Rock & Worship Roadshow” will venture out on its 4th annual tour this spring with another all-star bill featuring MercyMe, Tenth Avenue North, LeCrae, Hawk Nelson, Disciple, Sidewalk Prophets and Rend Collective Experiment. The line-up will also include special guest speaker, and MercyMe frontman, Bart Millard. The tour will kick off January 26th in [...]

Newsboys Announce Their Biggest Tour Yet

On the heels of releasing their highly acclaimed rock worship project, God’s Not Dead (Nov. 15 on Inpop Records), Newsboys have announced they will embark this spring on their biggest tour yet, the “God’s Not Dead Tour.” Kicking off Jan 12th and running through May 5th, the tour will run in over 60 markets across [...]