K-Love Christian Christmas Music Festival At The ONEP Aiken Theater Was A Smash Hit

K-Love Christian Christmas Music Festival At The ONEP Aiken Theater Was A Smash Hit

By Jim Staley

City_County Observer Entertainment Writer

Last Thursday night, Christian Christmas music fired up the audience in the Aiken Theater at the Old National Events Plaza.  Of course, the service of the workers was excellent, the acoustics were outstanding and the music was inspiring.

The comedy group The Skit Guys, Tommy Woodward and Eddie James, warmed up the crowd with clean Christian Christmas humor, interacting with the audience and showing an upcoming film they have coming out called “family Camp.”

To lead off the night of praise, Dante Bowe a worship singer, songwriter and pastor filled the audience with energy with Christmas songs and his well-known worship song “Joyful.”

Next Cain got the crowd to its feet again with effervescent joy and harmonies.  Siblings, Madison Cain Johnson, Taylor Cain Matz and Logan Cain filled the hall with numbers such as Baby Please Come Home, “Wonderful” and “Rise Up (Lazarus)”.  Logan Cain went on to introduce the next act Jordan St Cyr.  Jordan is also a singer songwriter and worship leader from Canada that inspired the crowd with his composition “Fires.”  He believes the story of the song leads us closer to Jesus.

The crowd was ready for the next act…founder of the highly successful Christian Rock band “Third Day”; Max Powell was a great intro to what was to come next.  He started his set with a new Christmas song called “December” and continued with old and new songs including “Soul on Fire,” “Jesus Christ is Born,” and the Third Day classic “God of Wonders.”  Cain joined Max singing “Christmas is Coming” and then finally Mr. Powell ended with the song “River of Life” from his new album.

After an intermission which included pleas to the crowd to sponsor needy children, Casting Crowns took the stage, opening with a solo violinist playing a short rendition of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”  Then the band went into their 2018 classic “Only Jesus” followed up by the Christmas standard “Joy To The World” and “Gloria/Angels We Have Heard on High.”  The joy continued with “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” and then the song of the night, the 2021 hit “Scars in Heaven.”  These were followed by “Just Be Held” and the Christmas classic “Oh Holy Night.”  Lead singer Mark Hall continued to spread God’s message throughout the set and it really showed in their new song “Healer.”  

Casting Crowns finished up this marvelous concert with two of their Christmas songs and one Christmas classic.  From their 2008 Christmas Album “Peace on Earth” they sang “While You Were Sleeping,” followed by “Make Room” off their 2017 Christmas album and then finishing up with “Silent Night” which included all the entertainers in the show.  The entire evening was an inspiring, joyful way to ring in the Christmas season.