Anberlin Frontman Dropping From Current Tour

October 16th, 2011

Martin

Anberlin singer Stephen Christian has decided to leave the tour early due to urgent family issues. The group has been on the road with Switchfoot since the first of this month. Anberlin has announced they will continue the tour without Stephen and will have temporary vocalists for the remainder of the dates.

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Anberlin have released this official statement, “Hello friends!! So this tour has been going absolutely amazing and one of the best things we’ve ever been a part of. So pumped to be out with the Switchfoot guys, getting to work on some amazing things with Downtime, and also writing some new songs.So, we wanted to let you know about something that has just come up and that we had to make a decision on. Stephen has to leave the tour early to tend to some urgent family issues at home, and so we were faced with a last minute decision to either drop off the tour early OR figure out a creative way to not cancel some of our favorite cities. So we have decided to do something we have never done before, and we hope you will have as much fun with this as we will.
Starting in Dallas at the House of Blues show, we will have our close friends Phil and Dan from Story of the Year both fill in on vocals for the few remaining shows on this tour. They were available at the last minute and have agreed to help us out. This is sure to be a memorable experience, and we are beyond stoked to have those guys out with us. This is all the more reason to come out and share in this unique show experience! We assure you it will be way too much fun, so come out and do this with us!!”

It is sure to be an interesting new addition to the tour. Below is the remainder of dates left on the road. Please leave your comments after.

Oct 17 House of Blues Dallas, TX
Oct 18 Stubbs Austin, TX
Oct 20 Kiva Albuquerque, NM
Oct 21 The Cotilion Wichita, KS
Oct 22 BuzzFest 27 Houston, TX
Oct 23 Moody Coliseum Abilene, TX