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If you don’t mind a little bit of a drive, here are three multi-performer shows not TOO far from us in coming days, weeks …. and months:
It starts with Toby Mac in Pittsburgh’s Mellon Arena this Sunday, Nov. 22, one of the first stops on the “Winter Wonder Slam Tour” with Relient K, B. Reith […]

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Skillet, which is continuing to dominate the charts with its new package “Awake,” has some major tour news to announce for early 2010.
The two-boy, two-girl Christian hard-rock band is planning to hit the road in early ‘10 with mainstream rockers Shinedown and Puddle of Mudd.
This comes as Skillet’s second-most-recent project, 2006’s “Comatose,” which for any […]

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(This is a review set to run in Tuesday morning’s newspaper of Sunday night’s Phil Keaggy / Randy Stonehill show at Manor Church. Make sure you look in the paper for my cohort Justin’s excellent photos pf Phil doing that thing he does when he sings into the guitar. After several times seeing Phil Keaggy, […]

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I still remember the first time I heard them, when a missionary friend of mine in Europe pulled out a CD of a band he had just heard in a music store, with the package looking more like a can of chewing tobacco than anything else.
(Ooh, I thought, did I have a good scandal to […]

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(Word has filtered out that Jennifer Knapp, one of Christian music’s true bright, rising stars just a few short years ago who then seemingly dropped out of sight, is re-entering music and is planning to release an album in 2010. She just took time off to do other things, mainly travel, and didn’t fall into […]

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(Some folks have been telling me how they like the occasional look-back at some Christian concerts I’ve been blessed to be able to write about over the years … OK, it’s THEIR fault! … so here’s one more, of the hit-making balladeer Kathy Troccoli at Lancaster Mennonite High in summer 1999.
The thing I always remember […]

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