Spring is formally right here and meaning summer time is true across the nook. So is the world's largest premiere occasion, and organizers are busy finalizing plans and making ready for Livin' Out Loud 2024!
The road-up is now set and as soon as once more among the hottest names in Christian music will take to the stage at Lake Helen in Gothenburg. Livin' Out Loud 2024 is scheduled for Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18.
Headlining this 12 months's present will likely be award-winning band We The Kingdom. The story of We The Kingdom actually begins with patriarch Ed Money. Rising up in a household of religion, his father taught Ed and his brother Scott to play classics like “Johnny B. Goode” on the guitar. The Money brothers developed an early love of music and Ed harbored desires of someday being in a band.
That dream took a backseat for fairly a number of years as Ed struggled with alcohol and medicines throughout his teenage years, detoxed at age 19, after which wrote music for different artists. Ultimately, issues fell into place for Ed and Scott, who collaborated with Ed's youngsters, Franni Rae and Martin Money, and household buddy Andrew Bergthold to launch their debut studio album, Holy Water, in 2020.
The title reduce rapidly turned an enormous hit, reaching the highest of the charts. God So Beloved quickly adopted and have become the band's second consecutive primary hit, a uncommon feat for a brand new Christian act. The hit single, Youngster of Love, additionally topped the charts, launching We The Kingdom to stardom and setting Ed Money on the trail to his practically 50-year-old desires.
The band's meteoric rise on the earth of Christian music didn’t go unnoticed, as they had been named New Artist of the Yr on the 2020 Dove Awards2, and have been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards.
“We’re past excited to have the ability to deliver We The Kingdom to the Livin' Out Loud stage this 12 months! We've been attempting to get them for the final three years and we lastly did it,” stated Ellen Mortensen, Livin' Out Loud board member.
Becoming a member of We The Kingdom on the 2024 outside live performance will likely be Tenth Avenue North, making one other go to to Gothenburg. Tenth Avenue North headlined the 2017 Livin' Out Loud live performance earlier than the venue moved to Lake Helen.
Tenth Avenue North started in 2000 when Mike Donehey, Jason Jamison and Bryan Homan met at Palm Seaside Atlantic College in Florida. The group wanted a reputation for his or her band earlier than a neighborhood present and thought the title of the road they lived on – 10th Ave. N. – was sufficient for the primary live performance. The remaining is historical past.
After 20 years by which they bought practically 2 million albums, gained a number of Dove Awards, Platinum and a number of Gold singles, and constructed a catalog of hit songs, the band thought that they had reached the top of their time collectively and had been planning a farewell tour that was interrupted by the pandemic. As a substitute, Tenth Avenue North took a Four-year hiatus to refocus and regroup, and now they're again and wanting to hit the stage.
Tenth Avenue North hosted a “Welcome Again Weekend” on April 5 and 6, and the Livin' Out Loud board of administrators stated they’re thrilled to have gotten on the schedule for one of many iconic band's first comeback performances. .
Together with the award-winning artists, yearly Livin' Out Loud board member Koby Rickertsen manages to land a minimum of one promising artist simply earlier than they escape. A few of these artists from earlier years embrace Anne Wilson, Ben Fuller, Colton Dixon and Zach Williams. This 12 months that artist is Seph Schlueter, who burst onto the music scene this 12 months together with his smash hit “Counting My Blessings.”
Saturday's lineup is rounded out by Tori Harper and Thunderstorm Artis. Then, on Sunday morning, everyone seems to be invited to collect at Lake Helen for a group worship service, with music led from the stage by Tenth Avenue North chief Mike Donehey and a message from Roger Cooper.
Mark your calendars now – that is one occasion you gained't need to miss!