Along with Newsboys, Plumb, Building 429 and More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 24, 2013) - Singer/songwriter Julie Elias will share the stage with the likes of Building 429, Newsboys, Plumb and others at the LifeLight Texas Festival, scheduled for May 24-26 at Willowood Ranch, Sherman, Texas, in the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area. The free festival, which has sister events throughout the world—and is coming to Texas for the first time—gathers top Christian music acts for a weekend of family entertainment. Elias, who will be performing songs from her debut CD, A Wild Rose, will be featured on the Triple Shot Café Stage Friday night and the Main Stage Saturday afternoon for the Memorial Day Weekend festival.
"When I met the LifeLight organization—I should say, the LifeLight family, as they seem to be a close-knit team—I knew they were joined by a common love for God's people and a heart for worship," Elias says. "They do amazing festivals across the country and missions internationally. What is so especially cool is that the festival offers free admission. I hope this brings a ton of people who might not otherwise come to such an event! I am blessed and excited to be a part of the festival's debut in Texas!"
Elias has strong ties to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, where she currently is serving as Artist-in-Residence at White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas, in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, one of the 10 largest Methodist congregations in the nation, with an average attendance of 3,400 on Sundays.
"What a blessing to have the LifeLight Festival come to our area and bring thousands and thousands of people to hear God's message through music," Elias says. "I am hopeful that the entire Dallas-Ft. Worth area will be impacted by this event."
LifeLight Communications has been producing free Christian music festivals since 1998, when its anchor event, LifeLight South Dakota Festival, was founded. By offering free admission, LifeLight's goal is that all may come and all may hear the Gospel message. The South Dakota event, held in Sioux Falls, S.D., now draws hundreds of thousands of people each year during the Labor Day weekend. The organization has expanded through the years to host festivals in Bethany, Mo., Texas, Guatemala, and Haiti.
For more information about LifeLight and the festivals, visit lifelight.org/festival.
Photo caption, top: Julie Elias performs songs from her debut CD, A Wild Rose, to thousands of fans at Creation Festival 2012, the largest Christian music festival in the U.S., held annually in Pennsylvania. (Denise Blanton photo)
About Julie Elias:
After making the networking rounds in Hollywood, Elias was well on her way to becoming an up-and-coming actress thanks to various extra roles on Grey's Anatomy (where she was a regular for two seasons), CSI: New York, Bones, Parks and Recreation, Weeds and other shows, as well as several films, including Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr., and Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
After making the networking rounds in Hollywood, Elias was well on her way to becoming an up-and-coming actress thanks to various extra roles on Grey's Anatomy (where she was a regular for two seasons), CSI: New York, Bones, Parks and Recreation, Weeds and other shows, as well as several films, including Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr., and Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.
A Christmas trip to her hometown in 2010 caused Elias to reexamine her career options after she performed in her home church's praise and worship band and sang in some local concerts.
"It took a seemingly routine Christmas concert that year for me to realize what I've been called to do. In fact, Christmas of that year was the most clear-cut, obvious message I've ever received from God, period! It was as if He said 'I am spelling it out for you, in bold caps: PAY ATTENTION,'" Elias says.
At the beginning of 2011, Elias began making regular pilgrimages to Nashville to collaborate with Music City's top songwriters and producers. The trips resulted in her national debut CD, A Wild Rose, produced by acclaimed producer Robert White Johnson, whose body of work includes songwriting and production credits with such artists as Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Larnelle Harris, Johnny Van Zant and Michael Bolton.
"I've always believed you can hear words, but you can feel music," says Elias. "What is a relationship with God without feeling His presence through your entire being? Sometimes songs can touch you in a way that words cannot."
The release of A Wild Rose marks the culmination of a whirlwind year that has seen the singer/songwriter sharing the stage with some of Christian music's top artists at major festivals including Spirit West Coast, AtlantaFest, Ichthus, Creation NE, Cornerstone, Lifest, Sonshine and Creation NW. She also was chosen to perform on the Talent Spotlight Stage at Walt Disney World's popular Night of Joy and was selected for a soloist role in Ruth Graham's musical, Fear Not Tomorrow.
For more information about Elias and A Wild Rose, visit julieeliasmusic.com, or follow her on Facebook (facebook.com/julieeliasmusic) or Twitter (@julieeliasmusic).
About LifeLight Communications:
LifeLight Communications, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Evangelistic Proclamation Organization. Those people associated with the company view themselves as missionaries, and base their work from Acts 1:8, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." LifeLight exists to proclaim the Gospel through music and the message.
LifeLight Communications, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Evangelistic Proclamation Organization. Those people associated with the company view themselves as missionaries, and base their work from Acts 1:8, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." LifeLight exists to proclaim the Gospel through music and the message.
LifeLight's founding principle is to offer all festivals free of admission so that all may come and all may hear the Gospel message. The LifeLight South Dakota Festival, while the most visible area, is one of three areas of LifeLight's ministry: Festivals, Missions and Outreach. Yet LifeLight is one ministry with one mission, "Taking the Church outside the walls, bringing Light into the darkness with the life-changing message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
In everything LifeLight does, they must answer one question, "How is the Gospel going to be presented?" That is the common denominator, plain and simple.
LifeLight's first international outreach was in Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. LifeLight's first expansion festival is being held in Bethany, Mo. New festival additions include Haiti, Guatemala and Texas.
For more information, visit lifelight.org.
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