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Rend Collective Concert at Geneva

Rend Collective

Rend Collective

Geneva College is thrilled to announce that popular Christian band Rend Collective, with special guest Urban Rescue, will come to campus on its “As Family We Go Tour.” The show will take place on Wednesday, March 30 in Metheny Fieldhouse at 7 p.m.

For members of the Geneva community, the college is offering deeply discounted tickets, on sale now. Those who purchase general admission tickets through the college receive a special price of $18.50, which includes all fees. The same tickets purchased through other venues cost $26 ($20 plus $6 in fees).

In addition, a limited number of further-discounted tickets for Geneva students will be available through the Center for Student Engagement for $10, with no additional fees. Details on these tickets will be provided directly to students.

Rend Collective, formerly known as Rend Collective Experiment, is a Northern Irish Christian experimental, folk rock, worship band that hails from the small coastal town of Bangor, Ireland. The band developed outside of the influence of the music industry as a self-described “group of confused twenty-somethings trying to figure out faith, life, God and community.”

The group formed when members gathered at Rend, a ministry for spiritually hungry young adults, seeking an authentic, raw and real expression of church, which was informally pastored by bandleader Gareth Gilkeson. This honest and genuine movement of prayer and missions was accompanied by the birth of a new breed of worship songs that became the foundation for their first and critically acclaimed 2010 album, Organic Family Hymnal.

Since these formative years, the folk-influenced troubadours have, been thrust onto the world stage as leading voices in the evolution of modern worship. Following the 2012 release of artisanal alt-pop project, Homemade Worship by Handmade People, the band has gone from strength to strength. Foot-stomping revival hymn “Build Your Kingdom Here” proved to be a mold-breaking hit on Christian radio and, with views numbering in the millions, the accompanying concept music video was honored with a Dove nomination.

Urban Rescue is a worship band based in Los Angeles, California. The band’s first full-length album, Listen Empty, reached #9 on the iTunes Gospel and Christian charts worldwide. More recently, Urban Rescue produced the EP Wildfire, which the band says “was written out of a desire for God to cultivate His kingdom in the life of the church.”  

Pre-purchased concert tickets will be available for pick-up at the Events Office of Geneva College after January 4, 2016 or at Will-Call on the night of the event.

For more information, contact events@geneva.edu or visit the band’s Facebook event page.

This concert is a production of Generation: Exodus and sponsored by Geneva College.

Geneva College invites students to step forward with an academically excellent, Christ-centered and affordable education. Offering nearly 40 undergraduate majorsAdult Degree Programs with fully online and campus-based options, and high-demand advanced graduate degrees, Geneva's programs are recognized for their high quality. U.S. News & World Report ranks Geneva as a Top 10 Best Value with one of the Top 100 engineering programs in the nation. Adhering to the inerrancy of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in God’s word as well as in a core curriculum designed to prepare students vocationally to think, write and communicate well in today’s world.

Nov 17, 2015