It’s been more than three years since the death of his little girl, Marie, 5, in a tragic accident at their home, but Steve Curtis Chapman and his family are finally climbing out of the abyss of depression with “new music in a new season.”
“That’s what this tour is about,” Chapman said, “to let our fans know that we’re OK. I have to use my wife’s words: It’s like we are taking the first steps out of a deep, dense forest since the accident at home. (Maria was run over in the family’s driveway by a SUV driven by one of their sons.) We are in a new season with new songs, new life. We have a new grandbaby on the way. We are making some major changes at the house that have been a long time coming. In a sense we have pep in our steps. There’s more laughter at the house and that reflects in this tour.”
Chapman will bring his Song & Stories Tour to Mission Hills Church in Littleton on Saturday, Oct. 22. The tour features Chapman playing smaller venues while taking his music back to his Kentucky roots.
“There’s not an electric guitar on stage. It’s stripped down,” Chapman said. “I’m far more comfortable in this setting. In my biggest moment — the big arena days, the four busses and three or four semis — I was still just this kid from Puducah, Kentucky, sitting in my bedroom writing songs. I’m a singer-songwriter.
“In the arena days I had to make myself comfortable by sitting on a stool telling my stories. Now we are taking it in that direction with this tour. I’m taking these songs back to their original state — They were all written on an acoustic guitar.”
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