Forrest Frank: Child Of God Tour Part 2 Coming to Foster Pavilion April 22

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Following the massive success of his 2024 national tour, GRAMMY-nominee and double Dove Award-winning artist Forrest Frank will bring his 2025 Child Of God Tour Part 2 to Baylor University’s Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. It’s the first ticketed concert event in the 7,000-seat venue that opened in January 2024 as home to Baylor’s men’s and women’s basketball programs.

Student Pre-Sale will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. CT Wednesday, Feb. 26. Pre-sale codes will be distributed via email.

Tickets for the public will go on sale at 10 a.m. CT Friday, Feb. 28. The ticket link will be coming soon to baylor.edu/fosterevents. 

Opening for Frank is Claire Leslie, a rising singer-songwriter and worship leader from San Antonio. Leslie’s music has rapidly gained popularity on social media, where she tells stories from her life experiences and faith journey through a colorful, alternative pop sound.

Amid a sold-out national tour promoting the August release of his debut Christian album CHILD OF GOD, Frank’s rise to international fame has been unprecedented. Previously touring and performing as a member of the viral hit-producing duo Surfaces, Frank followed his calling to produce a Christian album that would resonate with and inspire young people to know the love of Christ.

Frank’s CHILD OF GOD held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Christian Albums Chart for 17 weeks, making it the biggest Christian album debut of 2024. CHILD OF GOD also took the No. 1 spot on iTunes across all genres – not just for Christian music – within days of its release. Within a few months’ time, it tallied over 1 billion global streams.

CHILD OF GOD earned Frank his first GRAMMY-Award nomination for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album as well as GMA Dove Award wins for New Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year with the album track “GOOD DAY.” His radio single off the album, “NEVER GET USED TO THIS” featuring JVKE, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart and No. 3 on the Christian Streaming Songs chart. The song “NO LONGER BROUND,” with Hulvey, reached No. 2 on the U.S. Viral Top 50 chart on Spotify with more than 78 million streams and counting.

On Nov. 1, Frank released the CHILD OF GOD (DELUXE) album featuring seven new tracks, including “YOUR WAY’S BETTER” and “HEAVEN ON THIS EARTH” with Torey D’Shaun. Frank kept things moving along with a new holiday original, “THE PRESENT,” which received a slew of adds from stations before Thanksgiving.

In addition to awards, album sales and radio hits, the momentum Frank has generated with his music is explained in the massive and continued growth on his socials, with a base that has boomed to nearly 5 million fans on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok alone, and nearly 6 million Spotify monthly listeners.

Bucking conventional wisdom that recording success would only come in hubs like Los Angeles, New York or Nashville, Baylor graduates Frank, B.B.A. ’17, and his wife, Grace, B.A. ’19, chose to lay down roots in Waco, underlying his commitment to serving and supporting his local community and the Baylor Family. This fall, Frank’s “NEVER GET USED TO THIS” with JVKE was the soundtrack of Baylor University’s new institutional television commercial for 2024-2025, which showcases the authentic Baylor experience and supports one of the University’s fastest-rising graduates in the entertainment industry.

In January, Baylor University engaged Nashville-based entertainment and digital marketing agency Noise New Media LLC to elevate the University’s concert programming and live event experiences at the Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion and other campus venues. Additional concert and performance announcements will be coming soon.

For more information about events at Foster Pavilion, visit baylor.edu/fosterevents.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FORREST FRANK

Full bio: Foster Pavilion events website
Official website: forrestfrank.com
Media contact: Velvet Kelm, velvet@themcollective.com
Social media: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Spotify

LEARN MORE ABOUT CLAIRE LESLIE

Full bio: Foster Pavilion events website
Official website: claireleslie.com
Social media: Instagram, YouTube and Spotify

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