Saturdays with Jamie Grace: Writing songs that mean something (Part 3)
DES MOINES, Iowa (WordNews.org) Jan. 26, 2013 – Christian music artist Jamie Grace conducts an interview with Word News from her parked car. She laughs. “I just need to be out of my room, away from my guitar,” she explains, “because I will end up playing it. I’m kind of sitting really weird. My feet […]
Read More →Saturdays with Jamie Grace: ‘Most of my songs come from crying’ (Part 1)
TAMPA, Fla. (WordNews.org) Jan. 12, 2013 – Jamie Grace, fresh from the “Eye On It” tour with top-selling Christian music artist tobyMac is on yet another tour – the Winter Jam – that will take her to about two dozen states with the likes of Sidewalk Prophets, Royal Tailor, Newsong, and, of court tobyMac. It’s […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Crazy Restoration (Part 4)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 12, 2012 – Chris August’s favorite song on his latest album, The Upside of Down, was born in the backseat of a “little weird minivan thing in India.” August and producer Ian Eskelin were on a mission trip in Kodaikanal, India, in January. “Anytime you drive in India it’s going to be […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Songwriting: Part inspiration, part perspiration (Part 3)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 11, 2012 – Christian singer/songwriter Chris August said songwriting can be work, requires discipline and needs to be treated like a job. “If a writer just waited for inspiration to kick in, a lot of the greatest work in the history of writing probably wouldn’t be written,” August told WordNews.org. August broke […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Writing songs on the fly (Part 2)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 10, 2012 – If you’re sitting next to Christian recording artist Chris August, don’t be offended if he doesn’t talk to you. He’s probably writing a song. Unlike some artists who have compiled a number of songs before landing that first record contract, August was writing new songs as he was making […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Expectations (Part 1)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 8, 2012 – Chris August came onto the Christian music scene almost out of nowhere two years ago, with the hit album, No Far Away. The song “Starry Night” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs. August received Dove’s New Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year awards […]
Read More →Touring with tobyMac
CYPRESS, Texas (WordNews.org) Oct. 6, 2012 – tobyMac kicked off his latest tour in Arlington, Texas, playing to a sold out crowd in College Park Center. Last night, the Billboard-topping hip hop artist was in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and tonight he’s in Cypress, Texas, where he sold out his VIP package – the best seats […]
Read More →75,000 turn out for Palau festival
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (WordNews.org) June 18, 2012 – With temperatures in the triple digits, more than 75,000 central Californians turned out for evangelist Luis Palau’s festival on the grounds of Cal Expo on June 16-17. Major Christian artists TobyMac, Skillet, Mandisa, Phil Wickham, and Lincoln Brewster performed at the event as well. “We were ecstatic with […]
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