Events|August 12, 2014 05:09 EDT
Hillsong UNITED to Head Winter Jam Tour for First Time Ever; Kicks-off This Fall Featuring TripLee, Jeremy Camp, Colton Dixon, and More (VIDEO)
NewSong's blockbuster Winter Jam Tour announced that for the first time ever, Hillsong UNITED will headline their Fall tour which kicks-off November 6 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Created and hosted by GRAMMYnominated Christian band NewSong, the tour will feature 10 of Christian music's top artists. Including GRAMMYnominated singer/songwriter Jeremy Camp, Francesca Battistelli, Colton Dixon, Disciple, Trip Lee and evangelist Tony Nolan. In addition, the Pre-Jam Party will showcase Everfound, About A Mile and VERIDIA.
Winter Jam West will hit nine cities in November, with $10 a ticket. Cities Include Sacramento, California's Sleep Train Arena; Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California; Boise, Idaho's Taco Bell Arena; and the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, among others, before concluding November 16 at Portland, Oregon's Moda Center.
"This will be our fourth year taking Winter Jam out West and we believe it will be the best year yet," says Eddie Carswell, Winter Jam originator and NewSong founding member, "With Hillsong UNITED headlining, along with the other great artists in the line-up, each night will be an amazing night of worship and celebration. We can't wait to see what God is going to do!"
Earlier this year, Winter Jam was once again ranked Pollstar's #1 tour in the world for the first quarter, based on ticket sales. The tour has garnered this top ranking for four consecutive years. Playing major arenas around the country from January through March, Winter Jam saw its largest audience ever, with a combined total of more than 550,000 people. In February, over 30,000 attended the inaugural Winter Jam Dome Spectacular at Atlanta's Georgia Dome, which was the biggest single event in the tour's history.
UNITED is a worship band that originally rose out of the youth ministry of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. This progressive worship band is a global recording and touring entity sent out to share the ever-evolving worship music of Hillsong Church to an international audience through live performances and records.
Releasing their first album in 1999, UNITED has toured six continents and 42 nations since 2006. The touring entity of UNITED has made a huge wave in the United States as they became the first Christian artist to ever sell out Los Angeles' Staples Center. In 2013, UNITED released ZION, which is their most successful and fastest selling album to date. This release also featured the No. 1 single, "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)," that cracked the longest reign on Billboard's airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Christian Songs chart.