Big Daddy Weave to perform at Perot

Texarkana is one of 60 cities to welcome Christian artists Big Daddy Weave for their Beautiful Offerings Tour.

The band will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Perot Theatre, 321 W. Fourth St., Texarkana, Texas.

Beautiful Offerings follows the biggest album of the band’s career, Love Come to Life, which featured four back-to-back No. 1 singles, including Love Come To Life, Redeemed, The Only Name (Yours Will Be) and Overwhelmed.

Big Daddy Weave members are Mike Weaver on lead vocals and guitar, Jay Weaver on bass and vocals, Jeremy Redmon on guitar and vocals, Joe Shirk on saxophone, keys and vocals and Brian Beihl on drums.

Before the group was called Big Daddy Weave, the musicians were students jamming with friends. Someone passed by and told them, “Hey, that sounds great.”

Eighteen years later, group members still find themselves humbled by their success.

Their journey has not been without struggles.

Bassist Jason Weaver had both of his feet amputated in the summer after suffering from a life-threatening infection. After taking time to heal and rehabilitate, he is performing again.

“Jason is having to find his new normal,” Mike Weaver told the Texarkana Gazette in an interview. “His right leg is not completely healed up yet, but he has been playing in a wheelchair. It is so good to have him back.”

The theme of Beautiful Offerings was the premise for a tour long before it became the band’s next musical endeavor.

“Usually it’s music first, then the tour. This was actually the opposite,” Mike Weaver said. “We began to tour under this name and God began to unpack the concept to us.”

Every song, concert and prayer with people they meet is a blessing, Mike Weaver said.

“The beautiful part of the Beautiful

Offerings tour is about what Jesus has done,” he said. “We all have brokenness. We all have stuff that we wish had never happened. We all need second chances. Jesus has provided all that himself literally through a second chance every day.”

Group members want people to come away from listening to their music with an understanding of God’s love.

“Sometimes we starting telling people how they need to act in front of God when really they just need to receive Jesus and what he has done for them and then that begins a whole process,” Mike Weaver said. “When we receive the love of God, then we can also love other people as God does.”

Also performing will be Dove Awardwinning singer Tiffany Arbuckle-Lee, known as Plumb, and the Irish worship band We Are Messengers.

Tickets can be purchased at The Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council at Trahc.org. Prices are $40, $30 and $25. VIP tickets with a pre-show Q&A and signed item are $50.

For more information, call TRAHC at

903-792-8681.