Danny Gokey returned to his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to perform on the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard Stage of Summerfest! It was his third concert at the World’s Largest Music Fesitval (11 stages, 800 bands and more than 800,000 attendees) since placing 3rd on American Idol. There was a huge crowd for Danny’s “all age” performance at 6 PM on Sunday, July 2nd.
This video is from one of our friends and contributing photographers, Grace Fershee. It was taken at the BMI Songwriters Showcase at the Gospel Music Association’s Immerse Conference on June 13th in Nashville.
“After I asked musical director & keyboardist extraordinaire Maestro to come chill & hang out at Immerse he was then asked to jump on stage super last second to perform with Danny Gokey during the GMA Songwriter showcase accompanied by Benji Cowart… And they absolutely killed it! So great seeing these guys after volunteering all day!!”
Thanks for sharing your video, Grace! You can see some of Grace Fershee Photography that we have featured at
This is an acoustic gift from Danny Gokey: “Better Than I Found It” from his album, “RISE“. Danny sings this duet with gospel artist, Kierra Sheard. This song was produced by Danny’s band leader, Maestro Lightford. Miguel Perez, Eric Ramey, Bernard Bell and an unidentified choir accompany them.
Better Than I Found It, produced by Maestro Lightford, we don’t know the writers, but it is rumored to be a duet on the album. (The promo single at Danny’s shows was sang only by Danny.)
We have lots more new song titles written by Danny Gokey from his song registry. Which ones will make it?
COMEBACK, NEVER GONNA GET IT WRONG, HYMN IN YOUR HEART, CONQUERER, DON T WANNA MISS A THING, LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE, SLOW DOWN, COLORS, I LL NEVER BE THE SAME, STRONGER THAN WE THINK, BE STILL, NEW SUN RISING, YOU DO, THOUSAND HOLES, LOUDER, LIFE AND OTHER STORIES, I GOT IT, BURNING UP A SUMMER NIGHT, FOREVER ONE — and many more unreleased, older songs from Danny!
That’s all we have for now, but we’ll update you with order links and a complete tracklist when it is available! Now we need the date for pre-orders to be announced by Danny and his label, BMG! Concert attendees can pre-order the album at Danny Gokey‘s shows.
Just 10 weeks to a full album of new Danny Gokey music!
Danny is sharing an acoustic version of “This Is What it Means”
with his music director and producer of this video, Maestro Lightford.
We are thrilled to see Danny Gokey using “This is What it Means” in the opening of his set for his recent tour. This beautiful song combined with the photo montage is emotionally powerful! We also have footage from Danny opening his set in the following video.
Should this have been a single? Let us know what you think!
Our thanks to Gary Ehrhardt for his video from the Positive Hits Tour.
Long time fan, Lori Castilleja, shares her concert videos from the Positive Hits Tour
Here is the setlist that Lori provided us:
This is What It Means, Hope In Front Of Me, Symptoms, Better Than Gold, More Than You Think I Am, How Great Is Our God, Give Me Jesus, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Rise
It’s Not Over.