(I looked back to one of the Creations held in Hershey earlier in the week, so let’s take a look at a report from the festival’s ”home base” the week before the 2008 festival began. Creation Northeast 2009 is scheduled for June 24-27, with top artists like Third Day, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Skillet, Kutless and Barlowgirl (need I say […]

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He’s a true pioneer of contemporary Christian music.
If it wasn’t for Glenn Kaiser, both with his own band and the hard-rock trailblazers the Resurrection Band — known almost univerally as the Rez Band — these days there would be no Kutless, no Pillar, no P.O.D.
And Kaiser, still touring relentlessly nearly 40 years after the Rez […]

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We’re now less than a month from the 31st annual Creation Festival in Mount Union, as you might know, and I’ll be looking forward to writing about and visiting the annual three-and-a-half-day experience, scheduled for June 24-27.
I thought it might be fun to look back at the festival of 13 years ago, when rain and […]

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“Give me a part to play … grant me another day,” Peter Furler sings on the very last song of the Newsboys’ new CD, “In The Hands of God.”
The song, called “RSL 1984,” is just one of many personal testimonies offered by the now-former Newsboys frontman on the new release, recorded before his departure from […]

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“The Day” in New Holland is less than two weeks away, on Saturday, June 6, and some exciting details are starting to emerge.
The free day-long Christian music festival will feature everyone from Jeff Deyo, the popular solo artist and frontman of Sonicflood, to area worship leader Christopher Wright and former Rainchildren guitarist Steve Bridgeman.
As another […]

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A week ago today, the Stellar Kart / Nevertheless show wound up drawing some 500 people to Manheim Brethren In Christ Church’s “Warehouse 54.”
That tells you a little bit about how popular the bands are, and also what a great thing the church is doing by making slightly harder-edged Christian music available to young people […]

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Going to cover a country music concert Monday night at the American Music Theatre (it was excellent, btw … my wife’s love of country music is having an influence) reminded me that one of Christian music’s most famous bands will be at that same venue next month.
That would be Switchfoot, with the Harrisburg band the […]

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It debuted at No. 1 in the Christian music charts, the band’s first top-selling CD in six years.
Which means that after 20 years in the business, the Newsboys are showing they still know how to reach people through their music.
“In The Hands of God,” the band’s new release, debuted at No. 1 on the SoundScan […]

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Whenever I take one of those classes on “authentic manhood” or listen to a message on what being a guy should and shouldn’t be, there’s a Christian music performer I almost always think about.
Dan Haseltine of Jars of Clay has always impressed me as a guy with a gentle spirit, willing to express emotions, both […]

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