Will Reagan, Young Oceans and Ivan Theva

Will Reagan plays St. Matthew's Cathedral on Tuesday, October 13, with Young Oceans and Ivan Theva joining him. The evening is presented by Pink Moon Sound, and they've billed it as an intimate night of prayer songs, story songs and silence, with no preaching or persuasion. That last part is a good one to keep in mind if you're deciding whether to come: the focus is on the music and the space it makes, not on a sermon.

Reagan comes from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he self-produced his first record in 2006 at the age of seventeen. He got his start playing house church gatherings with a group of friends, and has since expanded his music beyond the church audience. He calls those songs 'life songs' and brings his past catalogue along with them, so the set should pull from both his early work and the newer material he's been writing. Young Oceans and Ivan Theva round out the bill, and the whole evening is held together by that same quiet, song-focused approach.

If you're not familiar with him, Reagan's background is in those small, house-church settings, and that's where the 'life songs' description comes from—songs written for a specific kind of community that he's since opened up to a wider audience. The 'no preaching' part of the description is a fair warning that this is a concert, not a service, so you can expect the music to take center stage.

The show runs from 7 PM to 10 PM at St. Matthew's Cathedral, 5100 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75206. With Young Oceans and Ivan Theva on the bill, it's a full evening of music rather than a single set.