CCM notebook: Brian Littrell-Mac Powell tour coming to Lexington

News from the the contemporary Christian music front:

~ Lexington is the second stop for the Glory Revealed tour, which features our own Brian Littrell and Mac Powell from Third Day. The tour supports Glory Revealed, a new project from Powell and author and speaker David Nasser, which combines scripture and music. The disc comes out on March 6. Littrell is one of the participants on the project, along with popular college rockers Shane & Shane, Hyper Static Union frontman Shawn Lewis, Starfield's Tim Neufeld, Trevor Morgan and Candi Pearson-Shelton. This will be Littrell's first Lexington concert appearance since he became a solo artist. He did contribute two songs to the citywide memorial service for victims of Flight 5191 in September (Copyrighted photo, above, by Charles Bertram).

The Lexington date is 7 p.m. March 30 at Immanuel Baptist Church. Tickets are available through iTickets. Click here for more information on the show.

UPDATE OF ICHTHUS UPDATE: Ichthus 2007. Not only do you get Switchfoot and Third Day. Not only do you get Jars of Clay and David Crowder Band. And not only do you get Chris Tomlin, Newsboys and Grits. Now, word comes from the home office in Wilmore that Relient K (photo, left) will be back, along with newcomers This Beautiful Republic. Beautiful Republic will open Ichthus at 2 p.m. June 14, and they will also play a prelude concert June 13, either at the Ichthus grounds or the Asbury campus. Ichthus director Jeff James says these additions complete the mainstage lineup for this year. If you can remember a stronger Ichthus lineup than this year's, I'd like to hear it.

While I've got you, doesn't the snow take you back to Ichthus 2005?

~ We had some news about comings and goings in Christian rock in the print edition of rc talk in Saturday's paper, and sure as we put that Faith & Values section to bed, some new news crossed our desk. Former Newsboy's bassman Phil Joel and Indelible creative group released a statement late last week, talking about Joel's new endeavors. Seems he plans to extend the Deliberate People project he and his wife, Heather, founded, and his next project will be deliberateKids, a follow up to his Deliberate People solo disc that dropped last fall.

~ If you have some Audio Adrenaline photos of the digital variety, you may want to add them to the band's e-card. We know from looking at YouTube (and being there) there were several people at last year's Audio A performance at Ichthus with cameras.

~ The new CCM Magazine has an excellent story about how numerous faith-based bands in the mainstream market struggle with the question, "Are you a Christian band?"

~ Watch this weekend's papers and Kentucky.com for a chat with director Michael Landon Jr. about his new movie, The Last Sin Eater, based on Francine Rivers' novel, and reviews of the new Phil Keaggy and Matt Redman CDs.

Comments

[Cindy]

All of these groups will just be an added extra for Ichthus this year! With these groups alone, that is a great line up! I have heard them all and they are all a blessing and have wonderful music!

[love]

brian littrell is so cute and i like when he sings welcome home (you).