PLUMB Preparing to Join Big Daddy Weave’s Beautiful Offerings Tour
Dec 11, 2015 Artist Updates, Tour
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PLUMB Preparing to Join Big Daddy Weave’s Beautiful Offerings Tour, as well as Perform at Sam’s Place at the Historic Ryman Auditorium.
Currently appearing on the “The Very Merry Christmas Tour” with Newsong and Building 429
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 Nashville, TN – Curb Records artist PLUMB is honored to announce that she will be joining Big Daddy Weave on their “Beautiful Offerings” tour, beginning in early 2016. Also appearing on the tour is Jordan Feliz. Just before the launch of the tour, Plumb will be taking the stage for the first time ever at the historic Ryman Auditorium during an upcoming Sam’s Place event. Hosted by Steven Curtis Chapman, the January 10th Sam’s Place event will also feature Hunter Hayes, MercyMe, Mo Pitney and Rend Collective.Currently, Plumb is appearing on Newsong’s annual A Very Merry Christmas tour.
Since the May release of EXHALE, PLUMB has been focused on sharing the album’s themes: reflecting a grateful heart, giving credit to God for the restoration of her marriage and sharing the hope that He alone can give.
Her previous album – NEED YOU NOW – was a runaway success, and was heavily focused around the near loss and redemption of her marriage. Over the past two years, Plumb’s life theme has been “hope is oxygen”, explaining that hope keeps us alive when our lives are in turmoil. Now, EXHALE launches a new call to action, to exhale a message of hope to others who are hurting.
THE VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TOUR with Newsong, Building 429 and Reno:
12/11 – Pascagoula, MS
12/12 – Tallahassee, FL
12/13 – Woodstock, GA
12/14 – Port St. Lucie, FL
12/17 – Greeneville, TN
12/18 – Kernersville, NC
12/19 – Ft Mill, SC
12/20 – Lakeland, FL
BEAUTIFUL OFFERINGS TOUR with Big Daddy Weave and Jordan Feliz –
1/29 – Clovis, CA
1/30 – Redding, CA
1/31 – Santa Cruz, CA
2/2 – Bakersfield, CA
2/3 – Oceanside, CA
2/4 – Las Vegas, NV
2/5 – Redlands, CA
2/6 – Santa Ana, CA
2/18 – Scottsdale, AZ
2/19 – Tuscon, AZ 2/20 – Roswell, NM
2/21 – Colorado Springs, CO
2/22 – Albuquerque, NM
2/25 – Pharr, TX
2/26 – Allen, TX
2/27 – Conway, AR
3/10 – Puxico, MO
3/13 – Boaz, AL
3/17 – Joplin, MO
3/19 – Gulfport, MS
4/1 – Ft Wayne, IN
4/10 – Eklhart, IN
4/23 – Williamsburg, MI
4/24 – Grand Rapids, MI
4/29 – Keene, NH
4/30 – Dover, DE
5/18 – Punta Gorda, FL
5/19 – Bradenton, FL
5/20 – Largo, FL
5/21 – Lakeland, FL
5.22 – Ocala, FL
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BETHEL MUSIC RELEASES FIRST KIDS ALBUM, COME ALIVE, TODAY!
Dec 11, 2015 Artist Updates
Album Becomes iTunes’ Best-Selling Children’s Music
Bethel Music presents their highly anticipated and first kids’ album, Come Alive, worldwide Today on the new Bethel Music Kids (#BethelMusicKids) imprint being distributed through Provident Music Distribution. Hitting No. 1 today on the iTunes Children’s Music chart, this engaging, high-energy CD/DVD features 11 Bethel Music worship favorites sung by kids from the Bethel Church community, including “One Thing Remains,” “You Make Me Brave,” Chasing You,” “This Is Amazing Grace” and more.
With all the songs reconstructed into synth-pop mixes, Come Alive’s accompanying DVD presents 11 story-based music videos that portray a “day in the life” of a child, full of vibrant dance-based group choreography that invites viewers to join in the fun.
“Something that’s really celebrated, especially with this album is fun, and I think that we can never lose sight of the fact that there’s a fun element to worship,” says Bethel Music worship leader / songwriter Jenn Johnson. “Yes, there’s a reverence and there’s an awe, but, we have this saying that God is as happy as He is holy, and I think that that’s what we want to champion our kids in – that God is so fun and He is so wonderful. Just seeing that in the kids, seeing the fun and the raw and the real, that they’re not going to be into any fluff – I think it’s just incredible to watch that unfold.”
A promotional video for the project and more information can be found at https://bethelmusic.com/bethelmusickids/. The full Come Alive CD/DVD track listing follows:
01) Chasing You
02) This Is Amazing Grace
03) You Make Me Brave
04) O Taste And See
05) You Are Good
06) Breaking Through
07) Freedom
08) Deep Cries Out
09) This Is What You Do
10) Ever Be
11) One Thing Remains
About Bethel Music:
Bethel Music is a worship ministry that formed as an organic extension of Bethel Church in Redding, CA. Over the last four years, Bethel Music has grown from being a local church music ministry to becoming a global outreach featuring a cadre of songwriters and worship leaders, more than a dozen albums, chart-topping songs, and both online and on-campus worship schools. The heart of Bethel Music is to be a steward of the worship being created and released at Bethel Church, making it a resource available to the world. In addition to thousands of people that attend Bethel’s weekly worship services, another 150,000 plus people subscribe to the online stream of the services at www.ibethel.tv. More about Bethel Music can be found at www.bethelmusic.com.
Armand Hutton Scores GRAMMY® Nomination for Work with A Capella Group Committed
Dec 11, 2015 Artist Updates
Huttons arrangement of Committeds Do You Hear What I Hear from the album Home for Christmas (Mixed Bag Music Group, LLC) received a nod for Best Arrangement – Instrumental or A Capella. Committed won Season 2 of NBCs hit series, The Sing-Off!
(NASHVILLE, Tennessee) — Accomplished artist, writer, composer and label head Armand Hutton has received his first GRAMMY® nomination for Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Capella. The Recording Academy selected Huttons arrangement of Committeds Do You Hear What I Hear from the album Home for Christmas (Mixed Bag Music Group, LLC) for the honor. This is also the first GRAMMY® nomination for a capella group Committed, who won Season 2 of NBCs hit series The Sing-Off!
From childhood, Hutton performed on stages around the world accompanying his mother Noelette Leader – a professional gospel singer. In 2003, Hutton joined Hidden Beach Recordings vocal group Naturally 7 as their bass singer. The group toured worldwide, performing with Quincy Jones, Coldplay, Ludacris, David Foster, Jamie Foxx and others. But contemporary audiences may know them best as the opening act for Michael Bublé for the past 6 years. Bublé has featured the group on four of his albums as well as on numerous national TV appearances including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Ellen, TODAY, Tavis Smiley, CNN, Live with Kelly & Michael and more. Hutton departed the group at the end of 2014 to form his own label, Hutton Records.
Hutton Records will provide an avenue for artists who may not otherwise have the opportunity to be heard, but whose music touches peoples souls, says Hutton. I have modeled Hutton Records after the legendary Motown and Stax labels of the 60s and 70s. Their music spoke for the people and both labels became a symbol not only for their surrounding communities, but became the voice of African-American culture.
Hutton has composed, written and arranged for numerous artists including Michael Bublé, Committed and Naturally 7, who landed the Top 10 hit Need You With Me on Billboards Smooth Jazz Chart.
In addition to music, Hutton has produced two audio books: Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues and The Emasculation of the American Negro – both of which are available on iTunes and Audible.com.
The 58th GRAMMY® Awards will be held on Monday, February 15, 2016 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
TobyMac Honored With Two GRAMMY® Nominations
Dec 10, 2015 Artist Updates
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Lauren Daigle Receives First Grammy Nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album – “How Can It Be”
Dec 8, 2015 Artist Updates
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sixstepsrecords’ Chris Tomlin and Crowder Earn GRAMMY Nominations
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FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI EARNS GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “HOLY SPIRIT”
Dec 8, 2015 Artist Updates
Word Entertainment singer nets third nomination from triumphant album ‘If We’re Honest,’ out on third annual Christmas tour now
Nashville, Tenn. (December 7, 2015) – Francesca Battistelli has been nominated for a 2016 Grammy Award for “Holy Spirit,” the third nomination she’s garnered in two years from her breakthrough 2014 album “If We’re Honest.”
The Recording Academy revealed nominees for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards Monday morning. Battistelli was nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for the track that spent 15 consecutive weeks at No. 1 and topped 5 radio charts simultaneously over the summer, becoming Battistelli’s third consecutive No. 1 following “Write Your Story” and “He Knows My Name.”
“It’s a huge honor to be nominated for another Grammy! I’m beyond thankful that this album has had so much life–to be nominated a second year in a row for the same project is incredibly rewarding.”
The Grammy Awards will be presented Feb. 15 in Los Angeles. This is Battistelli’s fourth nomination overall. She is currently on the road for The Third Annual Francesca Battistelli Christmas Tour, which resumes Thursday in Newnan. Georgia.
The tour will wrap up an amazing year for the Fervent Records artist, who is expecting her third child in March. She was voted Female Artist of the Year at the KLOVE Fan Awards last spring, received her first Billboard Music Awards nomination, took three more nods at the 2015 Dove Awards and has had a song at the top of the radio charts for 19 weeks this calendar year.
For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.FrancescaMusic.com and follow @francescamusic on Twitter and Instagram.
The Third Annual Francesca Battistelli Christmas Tour dates:
Dec. 10 – Newnan, Georgia
Dec. 12 – McKinney, Texas
Dec. 13 – Cleburne, Texas
Dec. 17 – Greeley, Colorado
Dec. 18 – Elkhorn, Nebraska
Dec. 19 – Elkhorn, Nebraska
About Word Entertainment
A leader in the music industry for over 60 years, Word Entertainment, a Warner/Curb company, is a unique, comprehensive faith-based company comprised of multi-faceted artist service departments including publishing, merchandising, booking and online initiatives. Word Entertainment represents some of the top names and brands in music, including Meredith Andrews, Chris August, Francesca Battistelli, Big Daddy Weave, Blanca, Jason Castro, Everfound, Family Force 5, Jon Foreman, for KING & COUNTRY, Group 1 Crew, Love & The Outcome, Dara Maclean, NEEDTOBREATHE, Point of Grace, Sidewalk Prophets, Skillet, Stars Go Dim, Switchfoot, VERIDIA, We Are Messengers and Zealand Worship, and is home to 25 Entertainment, Word Distribution (representing Curb Records and Big Idea/VeggieTales among others), Word Church Resources, Word Films, Word Music Publishing and Word Label Group’s Word Records, Word Worship and Fervent Records.
BIG DADDY WEAVE LANDS FIRST NUMBER ONE RADIO SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM, BEAUTIFUL OFFERINGS
Dec 8, 2015 Artist Updates
“My Story” Marks Big Daddy Weave’s Ninth Overall Career Radio Number One
Nashville, Tenn. (December 7, 2015) – Big Daddy Weave has landed their first radio number one from the band’s new album, 2015’s Beautiful Offerings, with “My Story” going number one at seven different charts today, including Nielsen BDS’ NCA Monitored and AC Monitored, as well as Mediabase’s Christian AC Published, among others. “My Story” was co-written by Big Daddy Weave’s Mike Weaver and GRAMMY®-nominated songwriter Jason Ingram. Watch the official “My Story” music video here.
The Dove Award-winning Big Daddy Weave is currently on a five-for-five number one streak at radio, dating back to 2012, when “Love Come To Life” reached number one, followed in order by: “Redeemed,” “The Only Name (Yours Will Be),” and “Overwhelmed.” “Redeemed” went on to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
The song, “My Story,” came from a transformational time in Big Daddy Weave’s story. As were all of the songs on Beautiful Offerings, “My Story” was especially a result of nightly conversations the band members had following the ministry time at the end of each Big Daddy Weave performance. What has developed into an integral and life-changing portion of a Big Daddy Weave concert, the ministry time is an intentional time of dedicated dialogue and one-on-one prayer with the people who attend their concerts. The band has seen God work in powerful ways in the lives of people across the country.
“If I told you my story, you’d see hope, you’d see love, you’d see victory, all these things, but it’s not mine,” shares Mike Weaver. “My story is really the story of what God has done in our lives, and the goodness of that is that it awakens things in other people. Our story is really just part of His story.”
About Big Daddy Weave
Big Daddy Weave is one of the top artists in Christian music: they are one of the genre’s biggest headlining artists, the second most played artist at Christian AC-Monitored radio in 2014 and the recipient of multiple industry awards and nominations, including: Dove Awards, K-LOVE Fan Awards, Billboard Music Awards and ASCAP Awards. Between 2012 and 2015, Big Daddy Weave has achieved five straight No. 1 singles at radio, the most recent being “My Story” from the 9/18/15 album, Beautiful Offerings, and the previous four from the band’s career best-selling album, Love Come To Life. “Redeemed” was certified gold by the RIAA in 2015. Big Daddy Weave has career album sales of more than one million units. Formed in 2002, Big Daddy Weave is: Mike Weaver, Jay Weaver, Jeremy Redmon, Joe Shirk and Brian Beihl. More information can be found online at www.bigdaddyweave.com.
Get Connected With Big Daddy Weave
Website: www.bigdaddyweave.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bigdaddyweave
Twitter: www.twitter.com/bdwmusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/bdwmusic
POINT OF GRACE RECEIVES THIRD CAREER GRAMMY® NOMINATION
Dec 8, 2015 Artist Updates
FOR THEIR ALBUM, DIRECTIONS HOME (SONGS WE LOVE, SONGS YOU KNOW),
ON THE EVE OF THE GROUP’S TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
Album, Co-Produced by Point of Grace and Andy Leftwich, Nominated in the Category Best Roots Gospel Album
Nashville, Tenn. (December 7, 2015) – One of the most successful and endearing artists in the history of Christian music, Point of Grace, has added to its long list of accolades with today’s announcement of the trio’s third career GRAMMY® nomination. The multi-platinum group’s April 7, 2015 release, Directions Home (Songs We Love, Songs You Know), is nominated in the category of Best Roots Gospel Album (Category 40). Point of Grace has career sales of over 8 million albums, alongside 27 No. 1 songs at radio, 24 of which were consecutive.
“We are so honored and excited to be nominated for a GRAMMY this year in the Roots Gospel Album category!” shared Point of Grace’s Shelley Breen. “We really have to credit Andy Leftwich for co-producing something we are incredibly proud of. This is our third nomination over the course of our 25 year career – we haven’t had a win yet – here’s hoping the third time’s a charm!”
Directions Home is the first album Point of Grace co-produced, alongside Andy Leftwich, who is also Ricky Skaggs’ fiddle player and a member of the GRAMMY® Award-winning ensemble, Kentucky Thunder.
It is also the group’s first album primarily comprised of cover songs, including well-known hits like Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water,” Phillip Phillips’ “Home” and Trace Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This,” among others. Special appearances by superstars Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs further set this album apart from many of their previous projects, while widening their reach into the country music world.
“Directions Home has so many layers of meaning for us,” shares Shelley Breen. “It represents our past, where we are now, and most importantly, where we are ultimately going – home. Our hope for this project is that people will find encouragement in the lyrics, that they will feel emotions that will bring them great memories and a touch of nostalgia, but the higher purpose of everything on this record is to point listeners to the cross of Christ, which is the only way to truly find our way home.”
GRAMMY® Award Winner Laura Story To Make Grand Ole Opry Debut
Dec 8, 2015 Artist Updates
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