HM News Update: Week Ending 5-26
Rock Out This Summer
Operators of many the nation's largest multi-day Christian music festivals gathered together in Nashville recently for the Christian Festival Association's annual meeting. The goal of the Association is to help the independent festival organizations grow both spiritually and fiscally, so that more lives can be changed for glory of God. At the meeting, the members voted to expand the Association's membership to twenty-three events, with the addition of Hills Alive and Winterfest.
The 2007 season of Christian music festivals began in Orlando, Florida on May 11 and concludes during New Year's weekend in Lynchburg, Virginia. While most events take place during the summer months, CFA member festivals take place in every region of the United States from May to December. There's something for everyone, almost
anywhere you want to go:
5/25-27- Spirit West Coast, Del Mar, CA
6/7-9- Collide, Bells, TX
6/14-16- Atlanta Fest, Atlanta, GA
6/14-16- Ichthus, Wilmore, KY
6/20-23- Alive Festival, Canal Fulton, OH
6/25-30- Cornerstone, Bushnell, IL
6/27-30- Creation NE, Mt. Union, PA
7/11-15- Lifest, Oshkosh, WI
7/14-15 Hills Alive, Rapid City, SD
7/25-28- Creation NW, George, WA
8/2-4- Spirit West Coast, Monterey, CA
8/1-4- Soulfest, Gilford, NH
8/5-8- Kingdom Bound, Buffalo, NY
8/9-11- Unity Festival, Muskegon, MI
8/10-11- Rock the Desert, Midland, TX
8/17-18- Purple Door Festival, Lewisberry, PA
8/31-9/1- Rock the Light, Kansas City, MO
8/31-9/2- LifeLight Festival, Sioux Falls, SD
9/7-8- Rock the Universe, Orlando, FL
9/28-29- Cornerstone CA, Orange County
12/30-1/1- Winterfest, Lynchburg, VA
Make A Difference and See a Show
Colorado not-for-profit Conscious Alliance continues to broaden their reach, hosting food drives at concerts and other events throughout the country this summer. Attendees are encouraged to donate 10 or more non-perishable food items at the entrance, redeemable for an exclusive event poster. Food donated will benefit local America’s Second Harvest food banks, and monies donated will help support the development of a second emergency food storage facility, this one on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. Additional food drives to be announced. For more information click
here.
The complete list of summer stops is as follows:
June 7-10 Wakarusa Music Festival Lawrence, KS
June 14-17 Bonnaroo Music Festival Manchester, TN
June 21-23 Sonic Bloom Red Feather Lakes, CO
June 29-July 1 Taos Solar Music Festival Taos, NM
July 6-7 Re:Generation Music Festival Asheville, NC
July 13-15 All Good Music Festival Masontown, WV
July18-21 10,000 Lakes Music Festival Detroit Lakes, MN
August 3-5 Big Summer Classic Salem, MO
August 16-18 Camp Bisco VI Mariaville, NY
Sept 8 Power to the Peaceful Fest San Francisco, CA
September 14-16 Earthdance Laytonville, CA
September 20-24 Symbiosis Festival Northern, CA
The String Cheese Incident Summer Tour
Sound Tribe Sector 9 Summer Tour
Who Needs Commercials?
Universal Pictures and their upcoming film
"Evan Almighty" is sponsoring the dates for Skillet's up-and-coming tour to promote the June 22nd nationwide release of the film starring actors Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman. Skillet is previewing the trailer, mentioning the film from stage and running an internet campaign through their Web site or
myspace.
Wanna Play Bonnaroo or CMJ Music Marathon?
OurStage will sponsor the Bonnaroo Sonic Stage, where three musical acts will be selected from OurStage to perform. OurStage will also have its own showcase area next to the Sonic Stage at Bonnaroo - where artists and bands gather for smaller, intimate performance sessions during the festival. Bands and musicians should upload their work in the OurStage May competition no later than May 27th, 2007 to be considered.
OurStage will also award six showcase performance slots to perform in front of industry tastemakers, influencers, and music fans during CMJ Music Marathon October 16th – 20th, 2007 in New York City. In addition, one OurStage top-ranking band will be performing as part of the College Day event at the festival.
Starting in June, OurStage top talent will be highlighted in CMJ New Music Report and CMJ New Music Monthly. OurStage winning bands will also have the opportunity for a music track to be selected for CMJ New Music Monthly's CD sampler, which includes a quarter-page spotlight on the band in the magazine, for a total of 6 sampler spots. Bands and musicians should upload their work through August, 2007 to be considered for CMJ Music Marathon Eligibility.
Enter the competition
here.
Get Free Music Legally
Christian music site hearitfirst.com pairs up with the nation’s most listened-to Christian Hit station, 88.7 WAY-FM Nashville , to present the “2-minute challenge.” Kicking off this week, participants will have the opportunity to receive up to 24 free music downloads from today’s leading Christian artists.
Interested listeners can log on to hearitfirst.com/wayfm and follow the instructions to get started in this 12-week-long promotion, with each week featuring a new song from artists including Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns, Third Day, Jeremy Camp, Newsboys, Mercy Me, Switchfoot, Sanctus Real, Hawk Nelson, Kutless and Chris Rice, among others. Additionally, each week users can share the promotion with up to five friends and receive an additional bonus download.
Spread the Word
Bread of Stone
recently finished up The LifeLight Tour with Phil Joel, playing in front of over 5,000 people, averaging about 500 a concert. On the tour, Bread of Stone helped distribute over 600 bibles to interested individuals who made commitments to Christ during their concerts. The tour took them to cities and towns off the beaten path where Christian concerts aren’t the norm.
Paramore Opens Eyes
Paramore's video for "Misery Business" won Fuse's Oven Fresh voting this week beating out Evanescence, Kelly Clarkson, Fountains of Wayne, Tokyo Police Cub & Peter Bjorn and John. The video also received an all day premiere on MTV2.
Tooth & Nail Brings the Noise
The Tooth & Nail Tour is off and running and coming to a town near you. This year's tour features Tooth & Nail recording artists MxPx, Hawk Nelson (not on all dates), The Classic Crime, Sullivan and The Fold on all dates, with Project 86 and Run Kid Run appearing on select shows. Check out the dates below:
5/25 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
5/26 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
5/27 - Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues
5/28 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
5/29 - Louisville, KY @ Headliner's Music Hall
5/30 - Nashville, TN @ Rocketown
5/31 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Irving Theater
6/01 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
6/02 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Underground
6/03 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
6/05 - Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
6/07 - Minneapolis, MN @ Club 3 Degrees
6/08 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
6/09 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
6/10 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
6/11 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
Crash Landing
Pillar will enter the studio in July to begin recording their 5th full-length release. What's it going to sound like this time around? "...a 747 jet airliner crashing into your bedroom in the middle of the night. It's time." said Pillar.
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Comments
i'd just like to mention that KS, is Kansas and that Ichthus is actually in Kentucky so no one gets confused.
