Chris Tomlin Rules Dove Awards

Shure endorser takes home six trophies, including Male Vocalist of the Year

 

NASHVILLE, TN—After winning in multiple categories with his album See the Morning, and for a single he co-wrote, "Holy is the Lord", Shure endorser Chris Tomlin was named Male Vocalist of the Year and Artist of the Year at this year's Dove Awards, bringing his number of Doves received at the event up to a sweeping half-dozen.

 

"I think it hits the heart and soul," Tomlin said, commenting backstage on his music's appeal at the Grand Ole Opry House, the venue of choice for the Gospel Music Association's 38th annual bash. "And that's something that goes way past me to a much higher place. My name just gets joined in with it all somewhere along the way."

 

Shure endorser and Seattle native Natalie Grant co-hosted this year's Dove Awards and received the award for Female Vocalist of the Year.  Also part of the Shure family of endorsing artists, the band Third Day added to the more than 20 Dove Awards they have won over the span of their career with yet another for Christmas Offerings, an album voted Christmas Album of the Year.

 

Produced and directed by Steve Gilreath, the 38th Dove Awards relied heavily on Shure products for live performance segments, with 12 channels of UHF-R wireless using KSM9 capsules taking center stage flanked stage left, right, and along the back line by a collection of SM58s (background vocals), SM57s and KSM44s (guitar cabinets), KSM32s (overheads), Beta 98s (toms), SM57s (snare), and a KSM137 (high-hat cymbals). At the podium, three Microflex MX418 gooseneck mics were used to announce the winners.

 

"There are thousands of details for a producer of an award show of this magnitude to worry about,” Gilreath says. “While I admit that I don't really understand all the microphone technicalities, I do know that all I have to tell artists—and more importantly labels and management—is that Shure is providing a full complement of mics, and everyone relaxes with confidence all around!"

 

Working on-site in his capacity as manager of Shure Artist Relations Nashville, Ryan Smith offered congratulations to all of the company’s winning endorsers at the end of the show. "Good talent may indeed go unrewarded at times,” he said, “but clearly not tonight."


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