Hartford, CT (www.rockthesound.com) - Popular Christian rock artist Jeremy Camp, who has been compared to Creed,
Matchbox 20 and Dave Matthews, brings his inspirational sounds to the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut, at 7:30pm on Feb. 3, and Centennial Memorial Temple in New York City at 7:30pm on Feb. 4. The New York concert is a production of Rock the Sound; the Hartford show is being co-produced by the Bushnell Center and Rock the Sound.
In Hartford, Camp will be joined by South African band Tree63, which has scored a major hit with "Blessed Be Your Name," and Connecticut's own Evensong Rising. The New York show will also feature North Carolina's Building 429, voted the best new artist at the 2005 Dove Awards, as well as Koo Chung with Jinny Kim.
Camp, 26, has drawn numerous accolades in his young career, being voted best male artist in 2004 and 2005 at the Dove Awards, and best new artist in 2004. A former worship leader from California, Camp lost his first wife, Melissa, to cancer in 2002. While the loss was devastating, Camp wrote a song, "I Still Believe," to express the bedrock of a faith in Christ, which helped him through the grief and heartache.
"Watching Melissa go to heaven made me realize what's important," Camp said. "Music is not my life – Christ is my life. The only thing that really matters is what we do for Jesus on this earth, and as a result of what I've been through, I express even more the goodness of God and how faithful He is." Camp's recent release, 2004's "Restored," continued the theme of God's redemptive power in his life, on powerful tracks such as the title cut as well as "Breathe" and "Letting Go."
"Jeremy Camp is one of the top male artists in contemporary Christian music, and he's only been around for three years," said Rock the Sound founder Joel Stier. "He's had an amazing string of hits and has a great testimony of what God has done in his life. He has a strong voice and a great performing style that really connects with audiences."
Tree63, formed in 1996 when friends John Ellis and Darryl Swart began jamming together, won a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2001 for its self-titled debut. The group performed last summer in Queens, N.Y. as part of Billy Graham's historic final crusade. Building 429, winner of a Dove Award for New Artist of the Year in 2005, is best known for "Glory Defined," their hit power chord anthem. "I realized this life has many things to throw at me, but the overwhelming truth of my life is that as a believer in Christ I'm guaranteed I will one day know what His glory looks like," said singer Jason Roy.
For information on purchasing tickets to the Feb. 3 Jeremy Camp show in Hartford, call the Bushnell box office at (860) 987-5900 or visit www.bushnell.org; for the Feb. 4 show in New York City, call (877) 261-7625 or visit www.rockthesound.com.
