Our family hit the Bryce Jordan Center last weekend for the Winter Jam Tour. It marks the 1 year anniversary for Annabelle’s adoption journey. We stepped off the plane in Newark, and less than 24 hours later we were rockin out. Here’s Annabelle’s take on her first exposure to the world of Christian rock…
Yep, she fell asleep at some point. She didn’t sleep through the whole thing, but she was pretty overwhelmed by the experience. She had no idea what they were singing about, didn’t understand anything they said, and thought that we were a bad family for taking our kids to a loud concert!
Josie, on the other hand, loved the whole night. Our friend Laurie is an accountant/organizer/tour mom for the Winter Jammers, and hooked us up with some passes. We got in early enough to score some great seats, and had an absolute blast. We sat right next to the runway, which meant Lilly was close enough for Michael Tait (Newsboys) to sweat on her!
There was a variety of music, everything from screamo (Red) to folk/pop (Francesca Battestelli) to straight up Newsboys rock. Our favorite was David Crowder*Band. He seemed to be less into performing, and more into leading us to worship Jesus. Kim loved seeing the Newsboys again. Way back in the day when we were fresh out of college and leading a youth group we would travel anywhere in PA to see the Newsboys. Levi first heard them sing about a month before he was born! They brought back the spinning drumkit, and Duncan had to hold his snare with his hand to keep it from falling off the stand! The show was pretty spectacular…
It was great re-connecting with a college friend, hearing and seeing all the bands, and hanging out with 10,000 people at the BJC. But what we liked the most was seeing our kids connect with the message in the music. We used to be CCM concert people, but haven’t really done much of that over the past 5 or 10 years. I think that our kids may have caught the concert bug, because Levi has already scouted the area for upcoming concerts. He wants to try to get to Redding to see the Winter Jam tour there.
The kids have also started listening to more music by Christian artists, which is good. Levi pulled a couple of chord charts off the internets and started learning how to play Jesus Freak!
Thanks Cleve, for the tickets and the friendship! It was a great night…
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