AMY GRANT WRAPS SPRING 2024 TOUR, MAKES TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO NASHVILLE'S RYMAN AUDITORIUM
Grant Relives Iconic 1992 Grammy Awards Moment as Granddaughter Walks On stage during "Baby Baby"
Photo: Kurt Heineke
NEWS SOURCE: The M Collective
May 22, 2024
NASHVILLE, TN (MAY 22, 2024) - Six-time Grammy-award winner Amy Grant has officially wrapped her 33 city spring 2024 tour. Each evening was filled with reflection, nostalgia and fun as Grant performed favorites from the past 25 years including "El Shaddai,” “Baby Baby,” "House of Love," "Sing Your Praise To The Lord,” as well as deeper cuts that surprised audiences including “What About The Love,” “Nobody Home,” and her latest releases “Trees We’ll Never See” and “What You Heard.”
Grant filled the house for a back-to-back Mother's Day weekend shows at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, her first solo headlining shows at the historic venue in 25 years. Grant relived her iconic Grammy Awards moment when her granddaughter Penelope walked out onstage during "Baby Baby." Her daughter Mille, about whom "Baby Baby" was written and who walked on stage during the 1992 broadcast, surprised Grant by sending Penelope onto the stage reliving the special moment which was captured on film below.
Grant will turn her attention next to the annual Barefoot Republic camp she hosts at her farm for two weeks each summer. She once dreamt of kids running through her land laughing and having fun and Barefoot Republic camp has fulfilled this dream, with Grant taking part in everything from leading worship each morning, to archery and all kinds of outdoor adventures.
Grant will continue working on her next musical project throughout 2024, and in addition to her own fall tour dates, return for her Christmas At The Ryman residency with husband Vince Gill. The annual celebration marked over 100 headline shows this past December - the first co-headliners to mark this incredible milestone.
About Amy Grant:
Amy Grant's career spans more than 40 years and stretches from her roots in gospel into becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality and philanthropist. With three multi-platinum albums, six platinum albums and four gold albums, her total career album sales have exceeded 30 million and over 1 billion global streams. Grant’s chart success has been consistent throughout her career with six No. 1 hits, 10 Top 40 pop singles, 17 Top 40 Adult Contemporary tracks and multiple Contemporary Christian chart-toppers. In addition to her six GRAMMY® Awards, Grant has earned 26 GMA Dove Awards (including four Artist of the Year Awards) and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as the Music City Walk of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Conventional wisdom has it that Grant put Contemporary Christian Music on the map becoming the first Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first to hit No. 1 on the Pop charts and the first to perform at the GRAMMY® Awards. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of the past four decades is assured. In 2020, the T.J. Martell Foundation – the music industry’s leading nonprofit to fund innovative medical research focused on treatments and cures for cancer – honored Grant with the Tony Martell Outstanding Entertainment Achievement Award at their annual Honors Gala. Most recently, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts included Grant as one of their five distinguished Honorees to receive the 45th Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. In 2023, Grant toured in 70 cities across the country and released her first new music in a decade, starting with the single "Trees We'll Never See,” (March) and "What You Heard" (April). Grant released her latest album project, “Lead Me On Live 1989” in October 2023 which is a full-concert documentation from the 1988-1989 Lead Me On Tour and finished 2023 with two Christmas Tours including dates with Michael W. Smith as well as the annual Christmas At The Ryman residency with Vince Gill which celebrated over 100 headline shows at the Ryman, the first co-headliners to mark this incredible milestone. Earlier in 2024, Grant released the long-sought after “Songs From The Loft” album, originally released in 1993, for the first time on digital formats. Currently, Grant just wrapped a 33 date tour this spring, including two headlining shows at the Ryman Auditorium over Mother’s Day weekend and will begin recording her next musical project for release in the near future.
Photo: Kurt Heineke
Photo: Kurt Heineke
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