In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading up to Michigan to attend a worship/creative/arts conference at Daybreak church. I also just received an e-mail about an arts conference at Willow Creek in Chicago. David Crowder Band will be at the Willow Creek conference. Anybody else attending one of these events? If so let me know, I’d love to meet you and say hello.Read More →
 One of the first Christian music artists I ever really listened to growing up was Audio Adrenaline. For me Newsboys and Audio Adrenaline were the actually cool Christian groups that I might get my friends to listen to and respect their music. Now after a long, productive and successful career, the guys are calling it a wrap for the group. The move is led by their lead singer still struggling with his voice. Understood given the decade and a half they’ve been rocking venues and music festivals. Although retiring due to front man Mark Stuart’s ongoing vocal challenges, the band has since 1991 takenRead More →
Has anyone seen this yet? It’s a new Bible study series for youths that build on the Christian Music industry by providing different artists and groups to actually lead the study. The Big Shiny Planet effort seems like a pretty cool idea to me, especially for a youth group. I’m not sure how well it would do out of that age group and demographic, but that’s okay. Focus on something and be excellent at it right? With artists like Barlow Girl, Building 429 and Stellar Kart, there should be some instant connections between members of the youth group and the artists leading the study. IfRead More →
I’m pretty miffed right now. Just realized that the 38th Annual Dove Awards will not be televised this evening. Instead they’ll be televised in May. I checked the scheduled airtimes so far and there’s not a single station showing it in the Indianapolis market. That just stinks! It seals the deal though for me for next year. I’m going down in person for the week next year!Read More →
Okay, after listing a sampling of the various nominations for the Dove Awards coming up this week, I decided I’d like to do a little contest. For the person that submits their picks for the winners in each category below, and gets the most right, I will send them a free 6-CD library set that consists of some of the winners of the awards this year. Here are the CD’s I’ll include: Song of the Year Album of the Year Male Artist of the Year Female Artist of the Year New Artist of the Year Group of the Year THAT’S RIGHT! Potentially a 6-album collectionRead More →