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Sidewalk Prophets: The 2010 Dove Awards New Artist Of The Year

In 2010 the annual Christian music jamboree the Dove Awards announced that the New Artist Of The Year were Sidewalk Prophets . Such an award must have come as a big surprise to British CCM followers (amazingly Sidewalk Prophets ' big hit album 'These Simple Truths' hasn't been released in the UK) and a big surprise to long time followers of the band as the group had an independent album as far back as 2003.

Sidewalk Prophets - today David Frey (vocals), Ben McDonald (guitar), Cal Joslin (bass) and Justin Nace (drums) - first came together in Anderson, Indiana. The band told cross-references.blogspot.com website, "Dave and Ben actually started the band almost 10 years ago now when they met in college. Ben wanted to be in a band and let everyone he met in college know that he wanted to be in a band. Dave's roommate at the time was Ben's resident assistant in the dorm and he told Ben that he needed to meet his roommate Dave because he could really sing. The rest is history."

The name Sidewalk Prophets came soon after they formed. "Dave came up with the 'Sidewalk' which stems from a lyric in the Jars of Clay song 'Art In Me'. The line reads something like this, 'Images on the sidewalk speak of dreams descent'. Essentially, the way we understand this line of poetry is that God can be speaking through anything whether it's writing on the street or starts in the sky. 'Prophet' came from Ben's Word Of The Day dictionary. The definition of a prophet according to the dictionary is someone who speaks the truth about life. When we combined the two our name means - we're people who search for God in everything and seek to tell the truth about life from our perspective which is as followers of Christ."

In 2003 the group recorded the independent album ' Sidewalk Prophets '. But it was constant touring which sustained the group over the coming years. One of their specialities was church camps. Said Dave Frey, "I actually taught English education to sixth and ninth grade levels and pretty much just love kids. They are so open and it was just great to teach them. Even if I wasn't able to say that I was a Christian, to get up and share this joy and this experience. If they ever ask me why it is that I am always happy and ready to go then I can point them in that direction. That was a real blessing. Part of it is that I don't think I have grown up from when I was a youth. I think all of us really just have a heart for kids. We love those weeks at camp and just being around the kids. They are the ones that are going to lead the next generation for Christ.

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