FISH Christmas Concert

The Fish Christmas Concert was a holiday concert sponsored by radio station KFSH 95.9 “The Fish”. The musical artists featured the night of December 1, 2009 included Matthew West , Tenth Avenue North, and also special guest Tim Timmons. This event was located at Calvary Church in the city of Santa Ana.


The music acts started off with worship leader Tim Timmons taking the stage and starting the night with some praise songs that he wrote. From there he moved on to a short set of traditional Christmas songs such as “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. The music set the tone for night as it gradually got everyone into the Christmas Spirit.


Soon after a short set change, two men from the contemporary band “Tenth Avenue North” came up with acoustic guitars. This was quite a change from Tim’s, who had more of an energetic performance to get the audience ready. Part of the reason that they played solely acoustic for the night was due to the fact that not all of the members of the band were there. The presences of the softer tones were actually better for the mood. It made the atmosphere of the room more thoughtful and really gave more of a holiday feeling than Timmons. The setlist for Tenth Avenue North was a mix of their own chart-topping songs, some new original songs which will be on a new album due out in May 2010, and also some Christmas songs that showed quite a variety of emotions. They also played their own rendition of the song “Go Tell It On The Mountain”, having the crowd do a sort of noise that was meant to copy the tune of trumpets playing in their recorded version. It did not mean to sound like it, but to encourage the participation of the audience and also for some laughs.


As the last performer of the night, Matthew West began his time on stage with some up-beat tunes of his own. During the first half of his time Matthew let the rest of his band play the instruments while he just sung. In the last half he began switching between his acoustic and electric guitars to play along with the rest of his group. To follow suit of the rest of the musical acts he put in some Christmas songs, some being newly made by himself specifically for the occasion as he did previously at FishFest.One example of this is his song "The Day After Christmas".

Before I left I also got to get and autographs and meet both Tenth Avenue North and Matthew West (seen in first picture). Although the only way to get tickets for the event was to win them, the church was still packed, more than it had been for the Creation Fest Tour. If you can get tickets for this next year, I am sure that you will enjoy your time!