Barely taking a breather after her own tour ends, Amy Grant announced this week she will embark on a 15-stop tour with her husband, country star Vince Gill, starting in early December.
The closest the “Christmas With Amy & Vince Tour” comes to Lancaster County is Baltimore, where the superstar duo will perform Wednesday, Dec. 10, […]

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As Hurricane Ike begins to fall out of the news and other stories take over, it’s too easy to forget that the damage along the Gulf Coast of Texas remains very real.
No one has to tell that to members  of Leeland, the top-notch, about-to-break-out Christian band from Baytown, Tex.
Nearly a month after the storm, and […]

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One of the more exciting voices in Christian music these days is Brandon Heath, whose husky country/rock voice I will probably always be able to hear singing “…don’t get comfortable …”
And now Heath, who already has a “New Artist of the Year” win under his belt, has a new number-one song to his credit, “Give […]

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Phil Joel was the very talented bass player, co-singer and co-songwriter for the Newsboys.
He’s also one of the nicest people you’d ever meet (I did, once, for a half-minute before a concert … he told me in his great New Zealander accent of his love, like me, for “Fendah,” or Fender, basses).
It was the next-to-last […]

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Leeland was one of the first bands CrossRock wrote about in our still-young history (who am I kidding with “our” by the way!), a very promising young band with a great spiritual message and sound.
This week came word that the band’s hometown of Baytown, Texas, on the east side of Houston, took a very bad […]

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The Jonas Brothers, who your teenage daughter probably loves.
New Kids on the Block, who maybe YOU once loved if you were a teenage girl in their heyday.
The “Mamma Mia!” soundtrack, who your mom and grand-mama probably like.
But keeping hot company with these popular-music brand names is none other than Chris Tomlin, the Christian contemporary solo […]

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Months before the snowflakes are falling upon us (we hope!), another well-known Christian music act is announcing plans for a Christmas tour.
Casting Crowns, who are up there with Third Day and Michael W. Smith as the best-known performers in Christian music, are planning a 14-city “Casting Crowns Christmas Celebration,” replete with a full orchestra and […]

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The Newsboy have been together as a band for some 20 years, so it’s really saying something to feel like “on every level, this was our strongest tour to date.”
That’s what the band’s keyboard player Jeff Frankenstein is saying after this past spring’s last leg of the “GO” tour.
And the band, now known as simply […]

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(Since the New Era ran out of room to run this review in Monday’s newspaper — there IS a presidential candidate coming here, after all — here it is in its entirety, plus some extra lyrics, for CrossRock readers)
Andrew Peterson joked that he’s about to release an album called “Resurrection Letters, Vol. II.” — even […]

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