Award-winning Christian music artist Brandon Heath will be on campus this week for an open-air concert free to Oklahoma Christian University students.
The free concert will take place on April 12 at 6 p.m. in Thelma Gaylord Forum. Students are encouraged to arrive early to find seating and enjoy food trucks in the parking lot.
On April 6, The Talon interviewed Brandon Heath about his college experience and upcoming concert.
Heath notices a level of curiosity and drive to become better from the audience when he plays at a university, something he can identify with because he started his music career in college.
“That’s really kind of where I cut my teeth, so I feel like this energy from when I was starting and a level of competition with other students. But then there was also this eagerness to learn and be better,” Heath said.
In college, Heath and his close friends wanted to become country singer-songwriters. He still maintains close relationships with most of them, including Luke Laird, who co-wrote the single “The Jesus I Know Now” with Brandon Lake and Lainey Wilson.
Heath loves playing for smaller audiences like Oklahoma Christian because they seem more personal and comfortable to him, he said. Most of his performances are at similar more intimate venues.
“There is a closeness that you find in a small university — in a private school — that you don’t necessarily get in large student bodies. There’s a family feel. That’s when I feel the most comfortable walking into something like that,” Heath said.
He remains open to however the Holy Spirit might move during his performances, so he does not pressure himself to create a particular outcome.
Heath defines a successful concert by whether he felt the nearness of the Lord and learned something, either about himself or about God.
Camp Mystic, a young girls’ camp in Texas that fell victim to a fatal flash-flooding incident last year, has been on Heath’s mind. He is excited to see the camp reopening this summer season and plans to perform one of his songs inspired by the tragedy: “Can We Go Home Now.”
“Really traumatic events happen all the time. I don’t want the enemy to win or for us to feel afraid and like we can’t be present and celebrate a day of being alive and having the opportunity to be free of fear in our life,” Heath said.
He anticipates nostalgia for people in the audience who grew up on his music and hopes the sound of his voice will “remind them of a really sweet time in their life.”
Heath’s upcoming tour dates are available on his official website. No tickets are required for the Sunday concert at Oklahoma Christian.
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