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Covenanter Nominated for Gospel Music's Dove Award
NASHVILLE, TN (January 17, 2003) - Jesse Butterworth and the Christian music band
Daily Planet have been nominated for New Artist of the Year by the Gospel
Music Association, which hosts the 34th Annual Dove Awards in Nashville on
April 10.
Butterworth is the son-in-law of Bill and Betsy Luoto of McMinnville
Covenant Church in McMinnville, Oregon. His group has been in existence six
years. Butterworth, the lead vocalist, and bass player Seth Davis started
the group in 1997 while they were students at Azusa Pacific University in
southern California. The group released its first album, Hero, last
summer through Reunion Records in Nashville.
A song written by Butterworth and Reggie Hamm from the Hero album,
"Tangled Web," was nominated for Rock Recorded Song of the Year. And the
album was among five nominated in the Recorded Music Packaging of the Year
division.
Others nominated for New Artist of the Year include Big Daddy Weave, Jeff
Deyo, Paul Colman Trio, the Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus and Souljahz.
Michael W. Smith and Toby McKeehan (known as tobyMac) received nine
nominations and Kirk Franklin received eight nominations in different
categories for the Dove Awards. Smith, tobyMac, Steven Curtis Chapman,
MercyMe and Third Day were nominated for Artist of the Year.
Smith (who is also with Reunion Records) helped give Butterworth and his
band an early boost for their album when they teamed up for a benefit
concert that raised funds for a Nashville area Christian school last year.
Daily Planet visited the North Pacific Conference and hosted a concert at
McMinnville Covenant Church in November before
heading to Holland for a European tour that ended in early December.
Daily Planet began a winter tour in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on January 10.
The band is performing every weekend for the next few months, according to
Betsy Luoto, the vice chair of the North Pacific Conference. The band is
hoping to be at a McMinnville Christian festival called "Glory in the
Grove" during the summer. Daily Planet and Jars of Clay were the keynote
performers at last year's event.
Butterworth and wife, Marisa, are both musically inclined, having met at
Azusa Pacific. The two eventually sang together in the university choir.
Marisa helps behind the scenes for Daily Planet and has been an assistant
for another noted Christian artist, Joy Williams.
For more about Daily Planet (named after the newspaper of Metropolis in the
Superman comics), visit the band's website at www.dailyplanetmusic.com.
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