The MOVE TOUR Joins FrontGate Media for Exclusive Representation of Sponsorships Over Next 5 Years
Annual Tour Brand Unifies Christian & Gospel Music Markets Through Fierce Creative & Evangelistic Explosion Featuring Six Of Today’s Leading Voices
Orange County, CA – FrontGate Media; the leading faith-based, culture-engaged media & marketing group, announced today the addition of THE MOVE TOUR to their growing internet & events media group roster.
The MOVE TOUR is a movement that has awakened America’s communities by challenging and equipping the church across the nation to MOVE… Forward, Out of the Way, and With God. This annual tour brings excitement, inspiration and a strong transformative Biblical message through an electrifying musical experience that will engage any audience in over 35+ dates across the U.S.
This year’s MOVE TOUR brings together the fierce creative explosion of six of today’s leading voices in music & ministry—BET’s “Sunday Best” favorite Jessica Reedy, Hip Hop generals Da’ T.R.U.T.H. & The Ambassador, R&B/Hip Hop crooner Sean Simmonds, Urban Pop artists B.Reith and Jai in select markets, and Hip Hop Theologian Shai Linne. The MOVE TOUR is produced by Xist Music and UpLift! Group, who also created the 25-city MISFiT Tour 2011. For more information about the tour and artists, see http://www.MoveTour.com.
The MOVE TOUR draws a surprising and exciting cross section of people with a core audience ages 20-39, 70% of whom are women, 80% with one or more children at home. Dates for the tour will run July 5 – August 14, 2012 across 35+ cities with a projected average attendance of 1,200 per night, which is at least 42,000 attendees. For the MOVE TOUR MEDIA KIT, see http://tinyurl.com/frontgatemediakits.
FrontGate Media is customizing sponsorship packages for the tour, seeking national partners in the following areas: National Brands, Cause/Non-profit, Publisher/Books, University/College, Bible/Translation, Single Parent Resources, Film/DVD Projects, Software/Apps, Worship Resources, and Christian Websites. Category exclusivity is available for discussion.
Scott A. Shuford, founder of FrontGate Media, has experienced this tour and its fan base firsthand. “The MOVE TOUR is a cross-market, cross-ethnic, Cross-centric experience of what the church is today. They have created a great opportunity to join in the evangelistic movement God has commissioned to redeem people through the most popular music genre around the world. We at FrontGate see this tour as exactly the kind of value and reach that our company was created to support by making new connection points for companies and ministries with this audience.”
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