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"What if there was one night of the year the audience could come and get away from Santa Claus and remember just how amazing the story is that God put on flesh and dwelt among us?"
-Andrew Peterson
CONERT AT A GLANCE
- DATE: Saturday, December 07, 2024
- DOORS OPEN: 6:00 p.m.
- START TIME: 7:00 p.m.
- HEADLINER: Andrew Peterson
- CO-HEADLINERS: Jess Ray, Jill Phillips, Andy Gullahorn Andrew Osenga, Skye Peterson, & The Arcadian Wild
- VENUE: Trinity Baptist Church
3115 Trinity Blvd. Texarkana, AR 71854 - TICKETS: Click Here
- Premium Admission $100
Includes early entry, premium seats, and an exclusive Q&A Session with the artists prior to the start of the performance. - General Admission $25
- Premium Admission $100
You’re invited to join storied Nashville singer-songwriter and author Andrew Peterson as he presents the Advent song cycle Behold the Lamb of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ.
Now in the tour’s 25th year, Behold the Lamb will feature guest artists Jess Ray, The Arcadian Wild, Andy Gullahorn, Jill Phillips, Andrew Osenga, and Skye Peterson along with an all-star cast of Nashville songwriters and session musicians. The concert brings the singing and playing of Peterson’s original folk-roots infused rendition of the Christmas story as it is foreshadowed in the Old Testament and brought to bear in the New Testament.
The concert will be held at Trinity Baptist Church on Saturday, December 7th at 7:00 p.m. in cooperation with First Baptist Church DeKalb, Texas. The net proceeds of this event will be donated to Pathway Resource Center in Texarkana.
Tickets can be purchased online via Stubwire.
ABOUT ANDREW PETERSON
For more than twenty years , Andrew Peterson has been about the business of quietly changing lives in four-minute increments. In the city of Nashville, where music is an industry in the same way fast food, generic greeting cards, and bumper stickers are industries, Peterson has forged his own path, refusing the artistic compromises that so often come with chasing album sales and radio singles and creating instead a long line of songs that ache with sorrow, joy and integrity, and that are, at the end of the day, part of a real, ongoing, human conversation.
In 2024, Andrew is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his Behold the Lamb of God project with an anniversary tour and brand new album recording.
Andrew is also the award-winning author of The Wingfeather Saga, The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom and Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making.
Andrew and his wife, Jamie, have three children, Aedan, Asher, and Skye. In his spare time, Andrew keeps bees, builds dry stack stone walls, gardens, draws, and sleeps.
ABOUT THE BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD TOUR
Behold the Lamb of God is the kind of project that could probably only come from the mind of a fantasy book-loving pastor’s kid who listened to hair metal and ended up at Bible college.
Singer/songwriter/novelist Andrew Peterson believes in the power of story in the human experience. It’s this belief that fuels the motivation behind Behold the Lamb of God, a recorded concept album and live concert event that tells the “true tall tale” of the coming of Christ.
Growing up an avid reader, Andrew has long been a lover of story and music as a means to awaken us to the beauty of life through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Bible college provided a new perspective for Peterson. Having grown up in the church, with a Sunday School familiarity with the Bible, he began to realize the stories he was always told were actually true, which was huge for him.
Peterson remembers, “I began to realize the Bible was one big unified story, and Jesus was the center of the whole thing. I remember thinking, wait, Jesus is a part of the Old Testament? I figured if I didn’t know, lots of other people probably didn’t know either.”
It was a Christmas concert attended with a friend that brought all the pieces of the puzzle together and gave way to the birth of Behold the Lamb of God.
“When you really look at it, there’s a narrative flow to the Bible. It’s God telling us a story. That’s the heart of Behold the Lamb of God. I left that concert saying, what if we wrote a collection of Christmas songs that told the full story of Jesus? What if we did a show about it and made it sound like Nashville, like the music we love?” Petterson said.
“What if we wrote a collection of Christmas songs that told the full story of Jesus? What if we did a show about it and made it sound like Nashville, like the music we love?”
Peterson quickly got to work assembling trusted friends in his Nashville music community to put the show together. Before all the songs were even written, tour dates were booked. After a shaky but successful first tour, it became a tradition. Each year, the band took the show on the road in December.
Behold the Lamb of God is a poignant representation of the gospel story with many people with different gifts and talents coming together to tell the true story of Jesus. The tour has become a tradition for many families, especially those in Nashville who anticipate driving downtown to sing along at the perennially sold out Ryman Auditorium shows each December.
“Every year when we play The Ryman, there’s something emotional and electric about looking out into the crowd and seeing so many familiar faces.” For the 20th anniversary tour, Behold the Lamb of God will adopt the Nashville format, with each night of the tour featuring special guests and a Ryman stage-sized band.
