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Guest Speakers & Worship Leaders Include Israel Houghton, Bishop Joseph Garlington, Joel Augé, Aaron Lindsay, Ashmont Hill, Miriam Webster and “Can You Duet’s” Brett Manning
HOUSTON, Texas (July 25, 2008) - - GRAMMY® Award winning Israel and New Breed announce the 2008 A Deeper Level Conference slated for September 4-6 in Humble, Texas, just outside metro Houston. The event will be held at Grace Church of Humble located at 7224 North Sam Houston Parkway.
The three-day conference is specifically designed to equip and encourage worship leaders and team members, pastors, vocalists and musicians, as well as anyone interested in cultivating a deeper worship life. Music and ministry-specific sessions will cover a variety of topics from music theory and songwriting to production/recording and vocal techniques.
The diverse line-up of guest speakers, worship leaders and artists includes: Israel Houghton, Aaron Lindsay, Bishop Joseph Garlington, Joel Augé, Ashmont Hill, Miriam Webster of Hillsong Music and Brett Manning, famed vocal coach and guest judge for CMT Network’s “Can You Duet?”. (Complete list of speakers and artists shown below.)
“The Deeper Level Conference is a time of intense, life-changing worship,” says Israel and New Breed co-founder, producer and songwriter Israel Houghton. “It’s an opportunity to dive deeper into God’s presence and immerse ourselves in His deep grace, which renews and propels us to our divine purpose for the Kingdom.”
Registration and additional conference information is available online at http://www.adeeperlevel.com.
Last year’s conference included a live recording which resulted in Israel and New Breed’s GRAMMY® Award winning Integrity Music CD, A Deeper Level. This year’s event will feature a new, live recording that will take place during the Thursday and Friday evening concerts. Those who cannot attend the conference may attend the nightly concert recordings by purchasing tickets online.
An additional feature of this year’s conference is a songwriting contest available only to registrants. Information on this exciting opportunity for emerging writers is forthcoming.
Israel and New Breed are the 2008 GRAMMY® Award winners for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for A Deeper Level and the 2007 GRAMMY® Award winners for Traditional Gospel Album of the Year for Alive in South Africa. They also are recipients of multiple Dove, Stellar and Soul Train Awards and have two RIAA gold-certifications for Alive In South Africa and Live From Another Level to their credit. Israel and New Breed have been featured on FOX, CBS, ABC, BET, TBN and CBN with appearances at major events and festivals including Franklin Graham crusades and Sydney, Australia’s Hillsong Conference. Group founder and co-producer Israel Houghton is a worship leader for Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston and the other members of New Breed serve within ministry roles at their respective churches.
Israel and New Breed has achieved a synthesis of music and message that is electrifying and activating audiences inside and outside of traditional church walls. Most of their albums have to be recorded before live audiences to capture their singular infectious energy. Leader, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Israel Houghton has seen his compositions become integral components for progressive now-generation churches. Flanked by voices filled with joy, purpose and conviction singing over galvanizing arrangements of music with African, Middle Eastern and South American slants - like Earth Wind & Fire meets Pat Metheny Group - Israel and New Breed have swiftly amassed a legion of followers that crosses generational lines with popularity across African American, Latin and White listener lines. And as barriers are blasted away, the sprawling cutting-edge unit has been fittingly graced with two Gold-selling albums, four Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards, a Soul Train Award, six 2007 Grammy® Award nominations and a Grammy® Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album for the scorching Alive in South Africa project. Ironically, there is very little that is “traditional” about the way Israel and his group have been working their evangelical magic.
The group’s sixth Integrity Music CD, A Deeper Level (recorded live at the annual A Deeper Level Conference in Houston) rejoices in the glorious strides they’ve already achieved while revealing a higher calling for Christians to become more engaged in the work God has for all to do on our troubled planet. The seriousness with which this project was helmed was evident in the 40-day fast that preceded Israel and New Breed’s three days of recording, its purpose to petition the Lord to give everyone who hears the new music a heart to go deeper in worship that leads to acts of compassion and justice. The songs are the soundtrack to a companion book to be issued by Whitaker House Publishers that more explicitly details the Christian’s responsibility to be at the forefront of global compassion and justice. In short, A Deeper Level represents the Power of God on Earth at a time when it is stronger than ever yet more desperately needed than ever.
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