SGA announced Thursday that pop group Walk Off The Earth will be headlining this semester’s spring concert.
The concert will take place March 12 in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The show will be closed to the public, with Lipscomb students gaining free access through their ID cards. An exact start time is not set, but it will be an evening show, according to SGA.
SGA is currently considering the option of having a student act serve as the show’s opener.
Walk Off the Earth became famous for their cover performances posted on YouTube. The group’s rendition of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” currently has 146,315,524 views after being uploaded just over a year ago.
Katie Underwood, SGA’s Student Life Committee Chair, helped arrange for the YouTube sensations to appear on campus.
“SGA couldn’t be more excited to host Walk Off The Earth for this year’s spring concert,” Underwood said. “In past years, we have always had a more acoustic show with a singer/songwriter.
“When I was told I was the one leading up the search for this year’s show, I knew I wanted something different. SGA came up with a list of over 40 options, and slowly, but surely, we started to narrow down that list.”
Underwood hopes the band’s inclusion will be a fresh face in the long line of spring concert headliners (which, in year’s past, has featured Mat Kearney and The Civil Wars).
“Walk Off The Earth is going to very different from anything Lipscomb has seen in the past. The band became famous through their outstanding covers on YouTube. When deciding on a band, that really stuck out to us,” Underwood said.
“People are on YouTube all the time, so most people have seen at least clips of their videos. The band has an up-beat, eclectic sound that’s very catchy and fun to sing along to. SGA just wanted to do something different this year — break up the monotony of past years.”
Lumination will continue to update you as the show’s date grows closer.