Thanks to the Oscars, Grease: You're the One That I Want and a day trip to Louisville, we're a little off schedule here, but now we're regrouping, and here's the Christian pop update before this week becomes next.
UPDATE: Littrell cancelled: The Lexington stop of the Glory Revealed tour, featuring Lexington's own Brian Littrell and Mac Powell of Third Day, has been officially cancelled. The original date of March 30 had to be rescheduled, and the promoters were not able to secure a venue for the new date. "It wasn't from lack of trying, I promise you that," promoter Eddie Cooper said. For further information, visit Cooper Productions' website. If you just haaaaave to see this tour, the closest stop to Lexington is April 19 in Knoxville.
Ichthus update: The Ichthus Festival has created two mission-and-music packages for groups that want to do a service project as part of their trip 
to the Ichthus Festival. For a package deal of $315 per person, groups can participate in either a Lexington outreach for impoverished children or work with the Christian Appalachian Project at the beginning of the week, and then attend the music festival at the end. Check it out at the Ichthus website.
The Ascenxion Project is also gearing up with a sort of battle of the bands competition with the grand prize including a 15-minute mainstage slot at Ichthus and a bunch of career counseling from artists in the Ascenxion band, the sideman supergroup that wowed Ichthus last year. Now beware. The $200 entry fee and all the language about excellence in the promotional materials seem to say these guys are looking for fairly accomplished acts, so three-chords-and-the-truth alone might not cut it.
More out of Wilmore: In last Saturday's paper, we wrote about the Asbury College Media Communications Department 
creating an educational DVD to go with the new movie Amazing Grace, about British abolitionist
William Wilberforce. The folks at the Asbury say Walden Media told them Lexington and Louisville were both among the Top 10 cities for the movie last weekend, in terms of box office. Grace opened at No. 10 last weekend, taking in $4,054.542 on 791 screens, according to Box Office Mojo. Interesting thing was that it was No. 3 for the weekend in terms of per screen average, behind Ghost Rider and The Number 23, both of which opened on thousands of screens. That means that where Grace was playing, a lot of people were interested in seeing it.
Audio A: A bit of a disappointing note on the MercyMe-Audio Adrenaline concert coming to Rupp Arena April 21. Guitarist Tyler Burkum and drummer Ben Cissell are not on this portion of the tour. Vocalist Mark Stuart and bassist Will McGinnis will be playing along with guitarist Brian Whitman, who's been touring with the band for a few years. Burkum and Cissell will be back with the band for its April 28 final show in Hawaii. Audio A is breaking up due to Stuart's chronic vocal problems.
New music: This week was very light, but next week, you have new Brian Doerksen, Nicole C. Mullen and Relient K.
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