Announcement of Alliance festival
IN WHAT will be the biggest ever-indoor Christian music event held in
Europe, the Alliance Festival has been announced for 19 October in
Manchester. To be held at the 20,000-seater stadium, the Nynex Arena,
the massive seven-hour event will feature, subject to final
confirmation, DC Talk, Michael W Smith, Newsboys, the World Wide
Message Tribe, dBA and special guests.
The event, organised by
Alliance Music in partnership with the Baptist Union, Youth Alive,
Covenantors, Soul Survivor and CPAS, will be publicised by a mailing
into half a million homes. Said Alliance's Dave Withers, "We are
thrilled to be offering Christian music fans an event like this. This
will be the first of an annual event and we are already planning next
year, when we would like to get Steven Curtis Chapman."