WORD ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE RESOURCE, YOUTH MUSIC VAULT

WORD ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE RESOURCE, YOUTH MUSIC VAULT 
Kick-Off Event at Disney’s Night of Joy 2009 

(Nashville, Tenn.) Sept. 10, 2009-- Word Entertainment introduces a new online music-based program resource, Youth Music Vault, providing digital delivery of teaching curriculum and more to youth pastors and leaders across the globe. To unveil the launch, Youth Music Vault is hosting a private concert event for youth leaders at Disney’s annual Night of Joy at Disney’s Hollywood Studios™ near Orlando, Fla. this week. 

Developed to supply timely and accessible materials to those mentoring youth in a classroom or organizational setting, Youth Music Vault is the youth leader’s all-digital, one-stop shop for relevant, music-based program resources. For a $59.99 annual fee, subscribers will receive six bi-monthly issues, each focused on a different artist and their latest CD. Each issue of Youth Music Vault will include mp3’s of the featured artists’ entire CD, Bible studies based on those songs, an illustration video, a video greeting by the artist, music videos, interviews and an online chat with the artist. Chord charts, an instructional video, artist posters, game ideas and helpful articles provided by Youthworker Journal will round out the contents of this one-of-a-kind package deal. 

“Our team, under the experienced direction of Kandice Weaver, director of marketing, and Tim Holt, director of new media technology, has been working for the last two years to develop the perfect program for youth pastors,” says Tim Marshall, Sr. Vice President of Channel Marketing for Word Label Group. “Youth Music Vault is the first all-digital resource of its kind, and we hope it will enable youth workers to minister more effectively to their students by using these fresh and ground-breaking resources.” 

To celebrate the site’s launch, youthmusicvault.com will host a private concert for youth leaders only on Friday, Sept. 11 and Saturday, Sept. 12 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm at Disney’s Hollywood Studios™. Artists scheduled to perform include Big Daddy Weave (Sept. 11 only), Francesca Battistelli, Meredith Andrews, new Word Records signing Satellites & Sirens, and illusionist Brock Gill. 

“Word Entertainment is grateful to Disney’s Night of Joy for helping us express our gratitude for youth pastors and the work they do to positively impact today’s youth,” says Leigh Holt, vice president of branding and merchandising for Word Entertainment. “The Disney team has been instrumental in helping us facilitate and promote this special event, which in turn will showcase our Youth Music Vault program to hundreds of youth pastors whom we hope will greatly benefit from this innovative service.” 

For more information on Youth Music Vault and to sign up for a subscription, visitwww.youthmusicvault.com. For additional details and ticket information about Disney’s Night of Joy, visitwww.nightofjoy.com. 

Word Entertainment, a Warner/Curb company, is comprised of Word Distribution, Word Music and Word Label Group’s Word Records, Fervent Records, Myrrh Records, Canaan Records and Word Music Publishing. Leading the industry with over 50 years of music making history, Word Entertainment represents some of Christian entertainment’s top brands, including award-winning artists Diamond Rio, Point Of Grace, BarlowGirl, Mark Schultz, Randy Travis, Selah, Natalie Grant, Aaron Shust, Big Daddy Weave and Francesca Battistelli, in addition to Big Idea's successful VeggieTales video series.