Keller Auditorium

Rend Collective - Cancelled

The Revival Anthem World Tour 2020

The Rend Collective concert at Keller Auditorium on Friday, May 1, 2020 is cancelled.

All tickets paid for via credit card online, by phone or at the Portland’5 Box Office will be automatically refunded. All tickets purchased at a TicketsWest outlet must be returned to point of purchase for a refund.  To request a refund for tickets paid for with cash or check at the Portland’5 Box Office, please contact the Portland’5 box office at 503.248.4335 or email info@portland5.com. Refunds may take up to two weeks to be processed.

Please note: refunds are only available for tickets purchased directly through Portland’5 / TicketsWest.  Portland’5 is not responsible for the refund practices put in place by ticket resellers.


VIP Experience

  • Photo with Band
  • How to Speak Northern Irish LIVE
  • Exclusive pre-show “Campfire” Worship Experience
  • VIP Lanyard
  • Early Entry
  • Crowd Free Merchandise Shopping

The VIP Experience takes place before the show, with VIP doors opening at 4:30pm.


Amidst so much heaviness consuming events of today’s world, Rend Collective is sharing good newsas a response to that brokenness. The Ireland-hailing Rend Collective is harkening back to their roots-y, unique sound - originally birthed out of Bangor, Ireland – for their sixth studio album, Good News, released January 19.

Taking on the moniker “Purveyors of Good News,” Rend Collective is barreling down the road of authenticity, and simple old-fashioned Gospel. Grown away from industry or formula, each song from Good News is deeply connected to the band’s roots in missional community - a group of people, or extended family, who are united through Christian community around a common service and witness to a particular neighborhood or network of relationships – much like the band themselves.

The title track and lead single, “Rescuer (Good News),” speaks to the band’s desire to shed light in the dark places. In a society that seems to continually face bad news, the lyrics point to the good news found in Jesus for every season and circumstance.

“There's a lot of bad news out there, but no matter what we have good news, and that good news has a name: Jesus Christ. Today there is nothing more powerful we can do in the darkness, in the bleakness, than proclaim the good news, than proclaim the gospel, and that’s why we wrote this song," says bandleader member Gareth Gilkeson.

Writing “Counting Every Blessing” was a personal and vulnerable process for the band. Birthed out of a period of downheartedness, the band made a conscious effort to practice ‘counting blessings’ in lieu of comparison.

“Sometimes we spend so much of our time looking at what we don’t have rather than being thankful for what we do have,” shares Gilkeson. “Our time on social media, comparing our lives to others, steals our joy and leaves us empty. God has given us so much and we must discipline our minds to think on our blessings rather than letting them fester on what we think we lack.”

Good News is marked with joy and celebration from beginning to end, but it doesn’t shy away from hardship. Each of the 15-tracks on the album speak to the struggle we all experience in light of the good news we’ve been invited to share in.

“All of us make mistakes and hit the ground feeling like we can’t get up again, that our failure is too overwhelming,” Gilkeson shares about the song, “Resurrection Day.” He continues, “But Romans 8 says that ‘The power that raised Christ from the dead lives inside of our mortal bodies’. That means resurrection flows in our veins and if Jesus can rise from the dead, we can get up off the floor again, declaring ‘this is my resurrection day.’”

With Good News, Rend Collective has chosen not to shy away from the brokenness and suffering, but rather through music and lyric that continues to push boundaries in the band’s own unique way, brings light to the darkness. This album is an invitation to all of us – to lament, to remember, and to share in the good news that belongs to all of us.

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