Winter Jam '07 Report

Posted by Kevan Breitinger Mar 8, 2007

The tour is proving to be the must-see concert event of the new year, averaging 8,400 paid concert-goers for each show, announced Troy VanLiere, tour producer and manager for Integrity Music’s NewSong, which is hosting Winter Jam for the 11th straight year. The actual paid attendance for the tour’s first eight weekends was 228,758. Six shows have exceeded 10,000 in attendance, including a 14,500 sell-out in Greenville, South Carolina and a Winter Jam record-breaking 16,500 in Greensboro, North Carolina where fans were treated to a surprise guest appearance by American Idol icon Clay Aiken.

Winter Jam 2007 Tour Spectacular (www.jamtour.com ) is hosted by NewSong and features headliners Steven Curtis Chapman and Jeremy Camp, with special guests Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, new artist Britt Nicole, Speaker Tony Nolan, Presidential impersonator and comedian John Morgan and the breathtaking, fire breathing Andre the Hollywood Cowboy.

“Winter Jam never ceases to amaze everyone involved. Fans continue to line-up to be a part of these special concerts and not only are they offered an electrifying evening of music and entertainment, we are seeing hearts moved and lives changed,” said VanLiere, who states that more than 31,000 concert-goers have made decisions for Christ. In addition to decisions made for Christ, more than 3700 concert-goers have made commitments to sponsor children in Holt International (www.holtintl.org ) Children’s Services “Waiting Child Program,” a monthly sponsorship program that brings sustaining hope and support to orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable children awaiting full-time adoptions.