The biggest gospel tour of the year, The Festival of Praise, is coming to the Ted Constant Center on Wednesday, October 21. This spectacular tour features multiple Grammy, Dove, and Stellar Award-winning recording artists Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin, Kim Burrell, and Hezekiah Walker.  The tour also features Isaac Carree, Jessica Reedy, and Zacardi Cortez.  Marcus Wiley of the “Yolanda Adams Morning Show” will be this year’s festival host.

Tickets to Festival of Praise are priced at $25, $35 and $45 and go on sale Monday, June 15 at 10am.  Tickets may be purchased online at www.YnotTix.com by dialing 877-Ynot-Tix, or at the Constant Center Box Office. For more information on group discounts call the Group Sales Department at 757-683-7087.

The Festival of Praise Tour is a platform to uplift, motivate, encourage, inspire and entertain.  The tour will feature some of Gospel’s biggest and brightest on the same stage with ensemble performances and music by each artist highlighting their classic hits and most memorable anthems.  In conjunction with this year’s theme, Hammond produced “Trying to Make It Home,” a song which features vocal performances by Hammond, McClurkin, Burrell, Walker, Carree, Reedy, and Cortez.  The single is co-written by Hammond, Burrell, Walker, Carree, Reedy, Calvin Rodgers, and Phillip Feaster.  “The concept of “Trying to Make It Home,” is a collaborative effort by the artists on this tour and ties in perfectly with our purpose,” says Hammond, the co-creator of Festival of Praise.  “With all the discourse, upheaval and negativity happening around the world, we all agreed that there’s one common thread that people are searching to find.  People are trying to reach a safe place and home represents that for many people.”