This week several bands were reunited on an airplane as they headed towards Germany to play. Meanwhile, Twitter was buzzing in the wake of the Grammy nomination announcements.

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CHRISTMAS TOGETHER

@jamiegraceh: Wait... is this a music video for #ChristmasTogether? Is my Christmas EP on iTunes already?!! @GoteeRecords... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDUduJbOyE (November 28)

Gotee Records artist Jamie Grace released her Christmas EP this week, along with a corresponding music video. You can watch the video at the link above, and pick up her album here.

@OfficialTFK: Click here to get your free song from our new album! http://www.tweetforatrack.com/ThousandFootKrutch its only available until Monday! (December 2)

This week saw the launch of yet another major Kickstarter campaign. Thousand Foot Krutch started a campaign to fund their upcoming album The End is Where We Begin, and they reached their goal in less than 24 hours. To reward fans, they made a track available for free. “War of Change” will be available on Noisetrade (http://noisetrade.com/thousandfootkrutch) through Monday. If you want to pre-order and back the album, you can do that here. 

THE BAND THAT PLAYS TOGETHER...

@seth183: on the plane with red, house of heroes, remedy drive, icon for hire and wolves at the gate (November 30)

The annual Christian Rock Night in Germany brought quite a few bands together in the air and overseas. This year the festival included Skillet, RED, Hawk Nelson, Remedy Drive, House of Heroes, Icon For Hire, Children 18:3, and Stellar Kart, among others.

@timhoh: Lots of friends on this flight over to Germany... It might get rowdy. @houseofheroes challenges all bands to a mid-air fight! (November 30)

An international flight full of Christian rock bands has the potential to get quite rowdy. And an aluminum tube tens of thousands of feet above ground is the perfect cage for a royal rumble.

@jordantheafters: Bowling with the Casting Crowns and Sanctus Real guys!! It's on!!! (December 2)

Meanwhile, back in the USA, tour mates Casting Crowns, Sanctus Real, and The Afters were enjoying some quality bonding time in the bowling lanes. They wrapped up their tour together over the weekend.

@jasongraymusic: With the church all to ourselves it's time to turn out the lights and play sardines with My tour mates
@jasongraymusic: Playing sardines-I found them! Now we text the others still looking pics of us hiding to taunt them #BTLOG http://pic.twitter.com/nrZUb2e2 (December 3)

Jason Gray (currently out on Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God tour) gave us a glimpse into a late night game of sardines. In case you ever wondered what really happens after the crowd leaves a concert...

@NatalieGrant: SO glad @nicholenordeman was here tonight to see what she has helped to create. Most brilliant lyricist of our time. #notanoverstatement (December 3)

The Story Tour is one of the biggest tours of the Christmas season, featuring artists like Natalie Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Newsboys, Francesca Battistelli, Selah, and Anthem Lights. This week fellow Christian music legend (and recent addition to the list of tweeting Christian artists) Nichole Nordeman went out to support the tour.

GRAMMY BUZZ

@jamiegraceh: My phone was dead. Turned it on to a text from @mandisaofficial: "Hold Me" got nominated for a GRAMMY, WHAT?!?! #thankyoudecisionmakers #fb (November 30)

In addition to the release of her Christmas EP, Jamie Grace was celebrating her first Grammy nomination this week. Jamie’s popular song “Hold Me” was nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song.

@michaelgungor: Ghosts Upon the Earth was just nominated for a Grammy!!! (November 30)

For the second year in a row, Gungor received a nomination nod. Their groundbreaking album Ghosts Upon the Earth was nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.

@mandisaofficial: Thx for all the well wishes, friends! So honored to be nominated for a Grammy! Whose life IS this?!?! (December 1)

Mandisa was also celebrating this week as her album What If We Were Real was also nominated in the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album category.

@RoyalTailor: We are so stoked about our #GRAMMYnom!!! We love you all and big thanks to everyone that believed in us when others didn't! #makeamove (December 1)

Newer band Royal Tailor received a Grammy nomination as well. Regardless of who ends up with the statue, this is a significant milestone and well worth noting.

RELIABLE SOURCES

@audreyassad: I updated my place of residence on my wikipedia page. They changed it back and told me to cite a reliable source. So many jokes in there. :)
@audreyassad: I updated my facebook fan page status to say "I live in Nashville, TN" and I'm citing myself on Wikipedia. What a funny process.. (December 2)

Maybe Wikipedia’s standards for accurate information are actually higher than we might think...