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LifeLight Christian music festival

March 26, 2009 – 10:30 am
LifeLight , the outdoor Christian music festival that draws thousands to Sioux Falls each fall, brings the music to fans each spring. Starting this week, three national bands are performing in cities throughout the region. Day of Fire, John Reuben and Willet opened in Watertown on Wednesday for the first of 12 shows on a five-state tour. "Fans tell us they appreciate this, bringing great music to them instead of having to travel to a larger city," says Rob Kurtenbach, LifeLight's tour and concert director. Day of Fire has played across the United States and in Germany, Sweden, South America, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere overseas. Day of Fire's 2004 self-titled debut album featured hits such as "Cornerstone" (No. 1 at Christian Rock radio) and "Detainer." The album was produced by Scott Humphrey, who has worked with Metallica and Rob Zombie. It won a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year and was ...

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Christian music Ontario Jeremy Camp

March 21, 2009 – 5:22 pm
Jeremy Camp is bringing " a night of worship and a night of fun " to Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario on Thursday. The Rock & Worship Roadshow brings singer Camp, as well as other contemporary Christian rock acts MercyMeHawk Nelson, Tenth Avenue North and Addison Road to the area for $10 a ticket. "A lot of people just can't afford to spend $20, $25 or $35," Camp said in a recent telephone interview. Camp has won a number of Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, as well as a string of more than a dozen No. 1 hits and had three albums go gold. He released the album, "Speaking Louder Than Before," in late 2008 and hopes that it resonates with a different audience. "My heart wanted to reach out to the youth," he said. Camp aimed to have the new record encourage people. "The basics of ...

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Band Bluetree Tops Christian Charts

March 14, 2009 – 1:32 pm
The debut album of Irish worship band Bluetree hit No. 1 on the Christian Retail and Praise & Worship charts for a second consecutive week and moved up 12 positions on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. “ Since writing ‘ God Of This City ’, the band’s momentum has been nothing but fast and furious,” remarked Gospel Music Channel, referring to the hit song that vaulted the band into international popularity. God Of This City, the album, was first released in September 2007 and picked up late January 2008 by Fierce! Records for U.K. distribution. It debuted in the United States on Mar. 3, and went No. 1 on the Christian Retail and Praise & Worship charts shortly after. “What makes this really incredible is that these figures are for the 2 weeks prior to the general release,” the five-man group reported after it snagged the top spots last week. ...

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RED

March 12, 2009 – 3:13 pm
The band RED may not ring a bell to the average music listener. They’re not flashy nor do they use strange gimmicks to garner attention. The group, who started off in the Christian music scene, has now crossed the proverbial mainstream line and are beginning to get the attention they deserve. “For our purpose, we just wanted to be honest on who we were,” said guitarist Jasen Rauch. “So the fact that we were Christians, those things we were writing about were coming from that perspective and influence. We didn’t want to be boastful or preachy.” It started some seven years ago when Rauch met vocalist Michael Barnes and a set of twins — Anthony and Randy Armstrong. They all set their sites on Nashville - not as country musicians, but a place to set up shop. Rauch said they all became roommates for a year or so and then the music became ...

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Gaither Vocal Band

March 11, 2009 – 10:04 am
The first act announced for the 2009 Clay County Fair is an award-winning one. The multi-Grammy winning Southern Gospel and contemporary Christian music group, Gaither Vocal Band, is scheduled to appear in front of the Clay County Fair Grandstand at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13. Formed in 1981, the Gaither Vocal Band originated from famed singer and songwriter, Bill Gaither. During a Bill Gaither Trio concert, the group decided to try something new and perform a Southern Gospel song entitled, "Your First Day in Heaven." It was in that performance where the Gaither Vocal Band was born. Since then, the band has spent nearly 30 years proclaiming their message to audiences across the country. The group has experienced several different variations of band members, many of which are distinguished performers in the contemporary Christian music scene. The current all-star lineup includes the band's originator Bill Gaither along with Michael English, ...

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Tammy Trent Hall of Fame Visionary Awards

March 3, 2009 – 10:07 am
Singer songwriter, author and speaker Tammy Trent has been nominated for Inspirational Female Vocalist of the Year in the 2009 Christian Music Hall of Fame Visionary Awards. Trent is nominated alongside such longstanding artists as Janet Paschal, Susan Ashton, Bonnie Keen and Pam Thum. Voting in the Christian Music Hall of Fame Visionary Awards is open to the public at www.hallmuseum.com until March 31. Partnering with the International Academy of Music Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), the Christian Music Hall of Fame Induction and Visionary Awards Show will be held November 14 in Dallas, and will be hosted by recording artist David L. Cook along with acclaimed comedienne and recording artist Chonda Pierce. Trent's fifth studio album to date, Stronger, released last year. Produced by Dove Award-winner Bernie Herms, as well as Doug Bieden, Stephen Marshall and Brian Steckler, the album is a celebration of Trent's hope and trust in Christ ...

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Newsboys In The Hands Of God

March 1, 2009 – 10:19 am
Legendary, best-selling pop-rock band Newsboys prepares for the release of its fourteenth studio project, In The Hands of God, releasing May 5, 2009. The group is currently debuting music from its forthcoming record on the sell-out "Join The Tribe" spring tour. Produced by Max Hsu (Superchick, tobyMac) along with newsboys' Peter Furler and Jeff Frankenstein, In The Hands of God boasts the classic rock sound that has made newsboys' music legendary among Christian music fans for more than two decades. Featuring 10 hit songs, including "No Grave," "My Friend Jesus" and "Glorious," the album additionally includes background vocals by Michael Tait of dc Talk and Jamie Rowe of Guardian. In The Hands of God, as Furler explains, is an autobiographical record and a tribute to God's divine providence over newsboys' long-running career. In The Hands of God is already being embraced by radio with the debut single and title track, currently ...

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Building 429 Gerrells Performing Arts Centre

February 25, 2009 – 10:39 am
The Christian Pop-rock trio Building 429 will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Walter Gerrells Performing Arts Centre and the community is invited to attend, said a concert organizer. "They are so good. They were in Carlsbad last year for a show and said they really liked the energy of the crowd. So, they decided to come back," said Zack Palen, concert organizer and youth director for Loving Baptist Church. The trio is kicking off the first leg of their "Truth, Hope & Love" tour in Carlsbad, Palen said. Joining the trio will be special guests Mile 7, Above the Golden State and the new female group, Kimber Rising. Palen said that in an effort to make the event more "family friendly," there will be a fun-zone set up outside the venue at 4 p.m. "There are going to be inflatable slides and bouncy houses and stuff like that so that ...

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Nashville Christian rock crew RED’s

February 21, 2009 – 7:04 pm
Nashville Christian rock crew RED's new sophomore set Innocence & Instinct hit stores last week with some apparent momentum -- the disc debuted at the top of Nielsen SoundScan's Record Label Independent Current Albums and Top Current Contemporary Christian Albums charts, and hit Billboard's Top 200 at No. 15. The mainstream traction is a continuing thing for the local band, who toured behind 2006 debut album End Of Silence with a mix of mainstream and Christian crossover acts that included Switchfoot, Flyleaf, 3 Doors Down, Papa Roach and Buckcherry, among others. RED heads out this spring in support of the album with radio-rock act Trapt; their next hometown stop is in June, for "worship & rock & roll music camp" Camp Electric.

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Christian metal core band Haste

February 19, 2009 – 4:40 pm
Dreamer ,the new album by the Christian metal core band Haste the Day, is about the fall of man. The record is not specifically about that incident depicted in the book of Genesis, in which Satan took the form of a snake and persuaded Eve to disobey God — although mankind’s eternal battle against evil is traced back to that day. Instead, Stephen Keech, the Indianapolis-based band’s lead singer, says that “Dreamer” is about the struggle to avoid falling into sin and faithlessness. In a way, “Dreamer” is autobiographical in that Keech faced a crisis of faith when guitarist Jason Barnes was asked to leave the band after becoming an atheist, Keech said. Barnes’ decision to leave the faith of his youth had a profound impact on each of the members, Keech says. “It was just a hard time for all of us to see such a close friend as Jason (decide that he ...

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