This summer has brought two Top 10 hit radio singles from Carried Away’s August 28th release, I Want You. Mystery debut at #2 on the Cancon AC radio chart for the month of July while I Want You has reached #9. In the midst of the success of their singles, Carried Away has also been nominated for Best International Gospel Artist for the 2nd Annual En Sound Music Awards.

The En Sound Music Awards are the largest indie gospel music award show. Voting will take place online by the public and ends this Sunday, August 5th at 12:00AM, ET. To vote visit www.ensound.org/vote. At the end of the voting period, the five artists with the most votes in each category will move on the final round. From the five artists in each category, the ones that receive the top votes in each category will be the winners.The awards showand En Sound Conference will be held Sept. 21st & 22nd, 2007 inNewark, New Jersey.Other nominees this year include The Blind Boys of Alabama, Christafari, Ashley Cleveland, Kim Dexter (Mayfair Laundry), J.J. Heller, Cheri Keaggy, Phil Keaggy, Lyrycyst, Pettidee, Micah Stampley, Take 6, The Violet Burning and more. For more information about the event, please visit www.ensound.net.

Pam talks of their reaction to the news, “We felt so honoured, excited and surprised to find out that we were nominated for this award. We feel proud to represent Canada and our artists! We’ve always felt that being able to stay independent has allowed us to be true to be who we are and our calling. It’s such a blessing to be recognized for our ministry!”

In front of the Hollwood sign

Hanging with Gotham City’s finest

“This has already been a great summer”, adds Christine, “we’ve been really busy, performing from Ottawa to Los Angeles. We’re so excited too that our album is about to be released! With the exception of one hymn on the album, we’ve writing all of the tracks and that makes it that much more special to us. We are praying that this album will touch a lot of people.”

With sister Lisa (front row, second from the right ) with Tyler, Karen & Kelsey Kingsbury (back row) at ICRS

With Kenneth, Alan & Rebecca from Control Track TV

The group has been criss-crossing North America promoting Mystery as well as the new album. Recent stops include an appearance at the ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) in Atlanta, a TV taping for TBN’s Top3, a service at the Crystal Cathedral, interviews at radio stations such as CJTK-FM (Sudbury, ON), 105.9 Shine (Edmonton, AB), The Trio (Fort Vermilion, AB), AM 1140/The Eagle 100.9 (High River, AB), 99.5 Alive (Medicine Hat, AB), WBDX (Chattanooga, TN), WFFH (Nashville, TN), WCVK (Bowling Green, KY), WJIE (Louisville, KY), WAKW (Cincinnati, OH), WLAB (Ft. Wayne, IN), WHPZ (South Bend, IN), WJQK (Grand Rapids, MI) and WMUZ (Detroit, MI).

“The radio stations, especially in Canada, have been so accepting and supportive. It really means a lot that to us,” says Christine.

Print media has also been supportive as interviews with the girls will be featured in BRIO, In The Times and Beautiful One Magazines.

This month, the group has two more festival performances prior to their fall tour with Jump5. “We are so excited because it will be our first major tour like this,” says Colleen. “The tour with Jump5 will be from September to December. We will be going to cities all across the states and are working on some Canadian dates too! The members of Jump5 are great. We had a chance to have supper with them while we were both in Atlanta a few weeks ago. This tour is going to be so much fun! We love Jessie Daniels and pureNRG too. There seems to be a lot of people really excited about the tour and we can’t wait to start”

I Want You will be featured on www.HearItFirst.ca August 9th. The album will be value priced at $14.99 when it hits shelves at Canadian Christian retail on August 28th. For more information, visit Carried Away’s YMZ artist page.

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