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- Jun 19, 2012 to Jun 23, 2012
- Location: Ichthus Farm
- Latest Activity: Jan 25, 2021
Christian Music Festival in Wilmore, KY. Founded as an alternative to Woodstock, Ichthus is the longest running Christian Music Festival in the nation.
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For the 43rd consecutive year, some of the biggest Christian artists and speakers will converge on the Ichthus Farm in Wilmore, Kentucky for another great music, media, and ministry experience. The Ichthus festival will kick off on Wednesday evening, June 20, and run through Saturday, June 23. We'll begin announcing artists and speakers in October via Facebook. Discounted tickets are on sale now. Buy now and save 50 percent off the gate price.
The Ichthus Music Festival is the oldest, longest-running Christian music festival in the nation. It was started in 1970 by an Asbury Seminary professor Dr. Bob Lyon and a group of his students as a positive and redemptive response to the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Upstate New York.
The festival soon became a model for other Christian festivals that sprang up all over the nation. And it played an important role in the development of Christian music, as many artists found an opportunity to play for the first time before large crowds at the Ichthus festival.
Over the years, nearly all of the biggest names in Christian music have played at the festival: Andae Crouch & the Disciples, Petra, Keith Green, Amy Grant, Phil Keaggy, DeGarmo & Key, Michael W. Smith, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Kirk Franklin, DC Talk, The Newsboys, P.O.D., Third Day, Tobymac, Switchfoot, Skillet and Casting Crowns.
Times have changed, and in many ways, so has the festival. Each year, as many as 25,000 people still gather in Wilmore, KY to hear more than 140 Christian artists play on six stages at the four-day festival. And the artists have changed as well. Ichthus hosts artists from a variety of genres: adult contemporary, adult rock, hard rock, hardcore, hip hop, indie, punk, singer-songwriter, urban and crossover.
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