As an invaluable guide to our readers Cross Rhythms brings you a comprehensive listing of all the Christian events and festivals being held this year.
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FRENZY
Date: 11th June
Venue: The Royal
Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh
Contributors: Delirious?,
Third Day, David Crowder Band, Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus, Cathy
Burton and Band, John Boyers (Chaplain Manchester United Football
Club), Jimmy Dowds (Chaplain Dunfermline Athletic Football Club)
Website: www.frenzyfrenzy.com
Email:
sales@frenzyfrenzy.com
Telephone: 08708 748748
Cost: Adults
£26/ U16s £17
In setting up Frenzy we wanted to present a one
day Christian music festival of the very highest quality. It was our
desire for Christians to look at this event and feel so confident and
excited about it that they would compel their non-Christian friends to
come also. Our heart is to see our nation changed and set on fire for
Jesus. We want to invite people from all denominations and their
non-Christian friends to join us for this one amazing day. We welcome
Third Day and David Crowder Band on their first visits to Scotland, as
well as welcoming back our awesome friends Delirious?. Our prayer is
that thousands of hearts will be touched through this day and that
many will come to know Jesus as their Lord. Having moved to the new
larger venue at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh the
opportunities for enhanced visuals are endless. This ticket will not
disappoint. With sales already in the thousands, make sure you don't
miss out.

GORSLEY FESTIVAL
Date: 25th - 29th August
Venue: Gorsley Baptist Church, Hereford & Worcs
Contributors: To be confirmed
GOSPEL MUSIC CONVENTION
Date: 29th April - 1st
May
Venue: The Fraserburgh Leisure & Exhibition Centre,
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
Contributors: Karen Peck & New
River, Inheritance, Cheryl Dunn
GOSPEL PRAISE
Date: 30th July
Venue:
Streatham Common, London
Contributors: To be confirmed
GRAPEVINE
Promise
Date: 26th - 30th August
Venue: Lincolnshire Showground, Lincoln
Contributors: Chris
Bowater, Stuart Bell, Terry Virgo, Rachel Hickson, Tony Miller,
Rambabu and Duane White. Delirious? in concert
Website: www.grapevinecelebration.org.uk
Email:
admin@groundlevel.org.uk
Telephone: 01522 533535
Join with
over 12,000 people for a time of celebration at the Lincolnshire
Showground. Grapevine is an event for all the family, drawing people
from around the nations of the world. Celebrate with 6,000 people in
our Big Top venue, worship led by Chris Bowater and a host of
musicians. Speakers: Stuart Bell, Terry Virgo, Rachel Hickson, Tony
Miller, Rambabu and Duane White. Grapevine includes seminars to
inspire and equip, over 60 exhibitors, large sales venue, sports
activities, youth programmes for all ages featuring concerts with top
artists and community projects across Lincoln City.
GRASSROOTZ
Rock Your Socks Off
Date: 9th
July
Venue: Eridge Estate, nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Contributors: Yfriday, Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus, Nicky Rogers,
[dweeb], No More Horses, Soulcry, Psalm Drummers, Steve Chalke,
Stewart Henderson and David and Carrie Grant.
Website: www.grassrootzfestival.org
Email:
grassrootz@lifeandsoul.net
Telephone: 01892 530613/532072
Cost: Full Price/Adult: £20 on the day, £15 in advance
The
festival is an all age event with particular interest to families and
young people. Contributors booked this year include Newcastle rock
worship band Yfriday, American retro-rock band Rock 'n' Roll Worship
Circus, acclaimed singer/songwriter Nicky Rogers, punk rock
iconoclasts [dweeb], eight-piece funk band No More Horses, heat
winners of the Ultimate Showcase Soulcry, and percussion worship team
Psalm Drummers. Also contributing to the event will be popular speaker
Steve Chalke, poet Stewart Henderson and Fame Academy's David and
Carrie Grant. As well as four stages with live music throughout the
day, the event also features drum and DJ workshops, seminars, an
Inter-schools Battle Of The Bands competition, temporary tattoos,
candy floss, places to eat, inflatables and new this year: *Big Top
Performance Cafe, Fairtrade Art & Poetry tent.
GREENBELT
Tree Of Life
Date: 26th - 29th
August
Venue: Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire
Contributors: Alan Boesak, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
Fr Richard Rohr, Professor David Ford and Roy Jenkins
Website: www.greenbelt.org.uk/tickets
Email:
info@greenbelt.org.uk
Telephone: 0207 3742760
With music
of all genres across five stages; visual arts featuring Don McCullin's
A Life Interrupted; speakers including Alan Boesak, Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown, Fr Richard Rohr, Professor David Ford and Roy Jenkins;
performing arts including Springs Dance Company; a Children's Festival
for the 0 to 10s; an all-new youth Big Top venue; and a Make Poverty
History Campaign Day on the Bank Holiday Monday - Greenbelt is a
Christian arts festival committed to Kingdom justice and with an
embrace wide enough to welcome all.
HARVEST
Date: 25th - 29th August
Venue:
Witton Castle Holiday Park, Witton-le-Wear, nr Bishop Auckland, Co
Durham
Contributors: To be confirmed
KESWICK CONVENTION
Date: 16th - 22nd July, 23rd
- 29th July, 30th July - 5th August
Venue: Keswick Conference
Centre, Keswick, Cumbria
Contributors: Sinclair B Ferguson,
Stephen Gaukroger, Dominic Smart
LIVING WATER
The God Who Speaks Today
Date:
6th - 10th August
Venue: Royal Norfolk Showground, nr Norwich,
Norfolk
Contributors: Note For A Child, Stuart Menzies Farrant,
Gareth Robinson
THE MANDATE
Date: November
Venue:
Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Contributors: To be confirmed
MELTDOWN
Date: 11th - 13th November
Venue:
Quinta Centre, Oswestry, Shropshire
Contributors: To be confirmed
MERSEYFEST
Date: 14th - 21st August
Venue:
Liverpool
Contributors: To be confirmed
Website: www.merseyfest.com
Cost: £50 if booked by
30th April; £75 if booked after 30th April
Merseyfest is a
catalyst for transformation - transforming people, places and
perceptions. It is a means of bringing together Christian churches,
people of good will, public services and private enterprise to work on
the common goal of a better, kinder, more caring and more sustainable
community. From 14th until 21st August 2005 thousands of young adults
will come to Liverpool for a week of music, festivities and mission.
They will link up with thousands of local people and work on hundreds
of projects of kindness across the region. The week will culminate
with a free-to-enter festival in Croxteth Park with the best music,
speakers, dance bands and numerous other acts. Anyone familiar with
the work already done by the thousands of volunteers who took part in
Festival: Manchester (summer 2003) and Soul In The City (summer 2004)
will have a good idea as to what Merseyfest is all about. In 2005 it's
Merseyside's turn to host the UK's biggest urban outreach event.
NEW EDEN
Date: 1st - 3rd July
Venue: Torr
Abbey Meadows, Seafront, Torquay, Devon
Contributors: Quench,
Superhero, Solomon's Folly