Brandon Heath & Friends raise more than $16,000 at 'Love Your Neighbor' concert
Nashville, TN - Award-winning singer/songwriter Brandon Heath wraps an eventful week, headlining another successful "Love Your Neighbor" benefit concert, while also participating in activities surrounding the first-ever KLOVE Fan Awards.
Heath and renowned producer and songwriter Jason Ingram hosted their sixth annual "Love Your Neighbor" benefit concert to a standing-room-only crowd at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tenn. The locally-minded show raised more than $16,000 through audience donations for New Hope Academy, a privately-funded pre-Kindergarten thru sixth grade school in Franklin, Tenn., which exists to serve low-income families with free tuition for its classical education.
The free event featured intimate, one-of-a-kind performances from Heath, Ingram and special guests, including GRAMMY-winning artist tobyMac, American Idol alum Mandisa and GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter Laura Story. In a songwriter-in-the-round style, Heath performed several songs including his hit "Jesus In Disguise," new single "Love Does" and Ingram performed OSS worship-anthem "Forever Reign." tobyMac performed favorites "Get Back Up" and "City On Our Knees" with Mandisa bringing everyone to their feet with her hits "Stronger" and "Good Morning."
Heath and Ingram created "Love Your Neighbor" in May 2008, and the annual event has now raised more than $156,000 for Nashville and surrounding area needs. To find out more, or to donate to New Hope Academy, please visit www.nhafranklin.org/.
The K-LOVE Fan Awards is the first fan-voted award show in Christian music history. Heath participated in the weekend's events which included an exclusive fan concert Friday night, a meet and greet with fans on Saturday morning and culminated in the awards show at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium Saturday night. Heath was a featured performer alongside Matt Maher and MercyMe's Bart Millard at the awards and also conducted a special sports Q&A onstage with the winner of the K-LOVE Sports Impact of the Year Award, NHL's Mike Fisher of the Nashville Predators.
