Scheduled to speak:

Thursday
August 10, 2000
9:00 a.m.
RCA Dome

Shaded Red
Christian Band

Jamie and Jonathan Roberts, preacher's kids from Denver, Colorado, form the core of the Christian alternative band Shaded Red.

With a ministry mixed with music and evangelism, this young band is just as passionate about sharing the gospel as they are about their music. Shaded Red honed their modern, driving, guitar-based sound together over a period of years. Both brothers studied music in college, and quickly developed the ability to play off of one another's intensity. Eventually signing with Cadence Records in Nashville, Shaded Red released a critically acclaimed, self-titled debut and promptly took to the road, touring extensively with the likes of Guardian and Petra.

Not long after their first release, the band members were involved in a serious car accident while touring, which took the life of their drummer, Chris Yoeman. The band almost ended at that point. They cancelled five months of touring and stopped everything. After months of healing, the band came back with their second project, Red Revolution, which reveals a more layered and complex sound musically, and a more mature, soul-searching introspection lyrically. The new cd has been called one of the best Christian rock albums of 1999 and has allowed Shaded Red to reclaim a spot as one of Christian music's top alternative bands.