Ground-Breaking Initiative Combines Worship Music with Stories of Hope and Inspiration; Know Hope Collective Enhanced CD to Release March 1
Mobile, Alabama (January 2011) - – After a three-year departure, Audio Adrenaline lead singer Mark Stuart and bassist Will McGinniss return with some of their favorite emerging voices of worship as the Know Hope Collective, a ground-breaking initiative that combines worship music with stories of hope and inspiration.
According to Stuart and McGinniss, the Know Hope Collective will be an ever-changing group of musicians from a variety of backgrounds who come together to create worship music and share their unique experiences and testimonies.
“The Know Hope Collective is driven from an emerging style of worship and a place of vulnerability,” explains Stuart. “We go on a journey together through the good, bad and ugly to the redemptive side.”
Stuart says the Know Hope Collective grew out of their own cathartic experience of sharing life stories with friends and church members. “We’d meet at Will’s horse farm around a campfire and talk vulnerably with each other about our successes as well as hardships. It was a time of healing and redemption as we discovered the evidence of God’s hand in our lives like never before and the importance of telling one’s story.”
The duo’s pastor urged them to take their story-telling on the road, creating an intimate and hope-filled night of music, testimony and worship with friends. Since then, the Know Hope Collective has appeared across the U.S. and Canada with additional tour plans slated for spring 2011.
Their first recorded project, a self-titled enhanced CD, is slated to release March 1. It is ten-track album produced by Stuart, McGinniss and Josh Heiner.
“This first project was birthed out of the failure I went through… being a singer who lost his voice,” Stuart says. “But the next one might be on missional living, orphan care or clean water, wherever God is leading us.”
For Know Hope, Stuart speaks far more than he sings, sharing the microphone with Julia Ross (of Disney’s pop group Everlife), David Leonard (formerly of Jackson Waters, NEEDTOBREATHE and currently with Sons and Daughters), and 2010 BMI Christian Music Award-winning Songwriter of the Year Jason Walker. The group introduces new cuts including “Jealous God,” the radio singles “Attention” and “Build Us Back,” along with meditative reworks of Audio Adrenaline hits like “Ocean Floor,” “The Good Life,” and “Hands and Feet.”
The enhanced CD includes videos in which the band shares their personal stories of hope and links to additional content including information on Hands & Feet, a ministry founded by Stuart and McGinniss to aid orphans and abandoned children.
