Russ Taff is requiring surgery to deal with a personal health issue and will be unable to make the tour. Steve Taylor will still perform an extended set, and very special guests THE CHOIR have been added to open the show. 

Hailed by Prism as a “renaissance man,” musician/ filmmaker/ writer/ producer/ entrepreneur Steve Taylor has created a remarkably diverse body of work over the past four decades that has garnered him multiple RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications, worldwide record sales exceeding 1M, two GRAMMY® Award nominations, and a wide array of Billboard Music Award, Dove Award, Telly Award, and American Advertising Award awards and nominations.

Taylor’s recording career began in 1983 and spans both solo work – including such GRAMMY® Award-nominated albums as 1984’s Meltdown and 1993’s Squint – as well as founding the groundbreaking alternative rock band Chagall Guevara and fronting the supergroup Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil. In 1994, Taylor’s wide-ranging songcraft was celebrated with the all-star tribute album, I Predict a Clone: A Steve Taylor Tribute. Meanwhile, Taylor has proven an in-demand producer with a track record that includes 1997’s Platinum-certified self-titled third album from Sixpence None The Richer (highlighted of course by the 3x Platinum, worldwide #1 hit single, “Kiss Me” and the Gold-certified “There She Goes”) along with three Gold-certified albums for Newsboys, 1994’s Going Public, 1996’s Take Me To Your Leader, and 2003’s Adoration, all four of which earned GRAMMY® Award nominations.

Taylor’s work as a music video director and filmmaker saw him make history as the only artist to twice win Billboard Music Video Awards for self-directed music videos and also includes iconic music videos for such artists as Sixpence None the Richer, Newsboys, Fleming & John, Rich Mullins, and more. Taylor has also crafted a remarkably award-winning body of work as the director, writer, producer of numerous feature films, documentaries, animated TV series, and more, including producing last summer’s acclaimed theatrical release, Sketch, with Tony Hale for writer/director Seth Worley.  He has written essays on music and film for Talkhouse.com, and currently serves as Director of the School of Theatre and Cinematic Arts, Assistant Professor and Filmmaker-In-Residence at Lipscomb University in Nashville, where he resides with his wife, the artist D.L. Taylor, and their daughter.