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The Portland Festival 2000
10th Annual Summer in the City
Celebration o f Diversity
Great Music • Great Food • All Welcome!
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Sunday, August 13 — 4:00 to 7:00pm
This year’s Portland Festival held at Waterfron Park on August 18 and 19 by
Luis Palau's Ministry is bigger than ever! Bring your friends and family for
good food, music and fun. Kids can enjoy the Children’s area and skateboard
Featuring music by
Disciples o f Soul, ‘N Touch, and others
Outdoor Jazz Service @ 6pm
w/ Marilyn Keller, George Mitchell,
Ron Steen and Kevin Deitz.
'demonstration sponsored by Jammin 95.5.
A highlight o f the two-day program is the musical concert where some of the
biggest Christian acts will be singing on stage.
p act Velasquez will performing on Friday evening, August 18. Velasquezhas
brought the message o f God to more people than most women her age. 1 wo
¿years ago she won the Gospel Music Association s Dove Award for New
A rti& o f the Year for her debut album, Heavenly Place. In 1999, at age 19, she
becam e the youngest artist ever to receive the Dove award for Female Vocalist
to f the Year. And in January 2000, Velasquez learned she’d landed a Grammy
nomination for Best Latin Pop Performance.
•With the release o f Velasquez’s self-titled second album, she continues to
bring the message o f hope to millions o f fans. Her songs tell about God and
!His love for us. Commenting on the feeling behind the lyrics o f one song,
‘«Velasquez says, “What do I have to give the world? I don ’t have anything. And
sometimes what it’s down to is, ‘Speak for me, Lord. Do all these things and
be all these things 1 can’t be for this world in need.’”
W intley Phipps will also be performing on Friday night. Bom in Trinidad,
.raised in Canada, and educated in the United States, Wintley Phipps knows
about dreams. And he’s convinced God works through them. That s why he
wrote Power o f a Dream (1996). That’s why he founded the U.S. Dream
Academy, an online Christian academic resource.
But W intley brings the message through music, too. He didn't discover Black
American Gospel until his college days in Huntsville, Alabama, but began
• writing Gospel music then-and his since sung for U.S. Presidents, the Vatican,
j and appeared as a special guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show and C BS
j Nightwatch. In 1988 and 1989, he was nominated for a Grammy. Wintley is
; m a rrie d to L in d a D ian e G allo w ay P h ip ps and has th ree sons.
’. Kirk Franklin will take center stage on Saturday evening, August 19. His history
j includes being offered a recording deal at age 7 (his aunt, who raised him,
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; Franklin’s albums are rearranging the charts, landing Gospel music on MTV
and at #3 on the Billboard pop album chart. “I’m a Gospel artist who has to deal
; with a secular business,” Kirk Franklin says. “I walk a very tight rope. 1 stay
focused through prayer.”
His focus kept him on track to a Grammy, and he’s the first Gospel or Christian
artist ever to reach platinum sales with a debut recording. "I want to educate
and enlighten,” Franklin says. “Some people are afraid o f organized religion.
I’m giving a fresh new way to look at religion so it can be embraced.
A presentation by Sixpence None The Richer will be another highlight on
Saturday evening. ’’It’s all about timing, ’ says Leigh Nash, Sixpence s
vocalist. “I think it was the right song, with the right band, and the right record
label— at the right time.” The timing, the song, and the people have added up
to a Grammy 2000 nomination for Best Pop Performance by Duo or Group for
“Kiss Me,” 1999’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year by R&R, their self-titled
album selling more than 1 million and certified Platinum (February 2000), and
Kirk Frankin
the “Kiss M e” video on VH1 and MTV— among other recognitions and
awards. It began with 16-year-old Matt Slocum hearing 13-year-old Nash sing
in 1989. Three years later they signed with a small independent label. Add band
members Dale Baker, Justin Cary, and Sean Kelly, countless miles on the
road— including across the United Kingdom— and plenty ofhard work. “After
seven years o f lessons learned,” Nash says, “ I’m still just very thankful for the
opportunity to make music, and I’m trying to take it in stride.”
“When we recorded our album, I think we were all at a point in our lives where
we were ready to give up our dreams,” Slocum says, looking at the past two
years. “I know I was. So, hope was the message— don’t ever give up hope for
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