Event

Andrew Peterson

The Commons Concert Series Presents:

An Evening with Andrew Peterson
July 26, 2014
7:30pm
Doors Open at 6:30pm

Andrew Peterson has a fairly simple approach to songwriting: He writes the songs that he himself needs to hear, trusting that there are other people out there who might need them as well. And by the tens of thousands there have been. Peterson's most loyal fans in fact, tend to be those who find resonance with the "glowing ache" that permeates his body of work. But it's never been the ache of hopelessness or despair. Instead it's the ache that comes from deeply loving something that has been lost, and from daring to hope that it will one day be restored. It's the recognition that any pain we now feel is somehow inseparable from the joy that was intended for us from the creation of the world. And it's the undying hope that that same pain is also a promise, a forward longing, a deposit of the redemption and restoration of the greater joy that is yet to come.