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“A Drummer Boy Christmas Live” will bring For King + Country’s popular Christmas show to theaters across the nation from December 5-9. Band member Joel Smallbone says he is excited to bring the show to audiences.
“One of the things that we love is Christmas tours,” he told CBN News. “And we’ve done one almost every year since the beginning of the band.”
But with the Christmas season so short this year, he said, they came up with another option: bringing the Christmas show to movie theaters so even more people can see it. The band performed a show at the Toyota Center in Houston, attracted 12,000 fans and created “A Drummer Boy Christmas Live.”
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“It’s really beautiful,” Smallbone said. “This year, more than ever, I feel like we desperately just need to kind of keep the main thing the main thing, and these great hallmarks of humanity that are love, and joy, and peace, patience, kindness, goodness — let’s put them back in the driver’s seat this Christmas.”
Ultimately, he said “A Drummer Boy Christmas Live” is all about honoring the true meaning of Christmas. “This is singing about baby Jesus, and this is singing about the redemption of humanity and this is singing about BC to AD,” Smallbone said.
As for upcoming plans after the theatrical experience, he said For King + Country, for the first time since the beginning of the band, is spending a year away from touring. “We’re going away to write and record, and we’re also going away to work on our next feature film that is going to production next fall,” Smallbone said, explaining that the band will come back to perform after these upcoming projects.
More information is available at https://www.forkingandcountry.com/collections/drummer-boy-christmas-2024
–Alan Goforth | Metro Voic
