Arvada’s Everfound wrapping up Christmas Tour

Catch Ever­found’s Christ­mas tour in the Den­ver Metro area this week­end.

The Arva­da-based band will be at Christ Com­mu­ni­ty Covenant Church on Sun­day, Dec. 5, and at Front Range Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege in West­min­ster on Mon­day, Dec. 13. The West­min­ster show fea­tures a spe­cial guest and is the last of the group’s Christ­mas tour.

For more infor­ma­tion about this band of broth­ers vis­it their web­site. Below is a sto­ry that ran in The Den­ver Post before they played Heav­en Fest.

After log­ging tens of thou­sands of miles chug­ging up and
down the Rocky Moun­tains and Great Plains in a 16-pas­sen­ger van
with their sib­lings, the Odno­ralov broth­ers are final­ly see­ing the
fruits of their hard work and patience.

The broth­ers out of Arva­da — and Rus­sia — are cre­at­ing a buzz in
the music world after win­ning the Gospel Music Asso­ci­a­tion’s
song-of-the-year award at Immerse (for­mer­ly Music in the Rock­ies)
last year.

Rus­lan, 21, Niki­ta, 20, Yan, 18, and Lar­ry, 15, make up Ever­found,
which won for “She Said.” The song was co-writ­ten with Bev
Her­re­ma of High­lands Ranch.

“It’s been crazy, crazy,” Niki­ta says. “Song of the year added a
lot of buzz to what we are doing.”

That buzz lands Ever­found on the main stage at Heav­en Fest on
Sat­ur­day at Union Reser­voir in Long­mont. Last year the broth­ers
played one of the small­er stages at the fes­ti­val, which drew more
than 30,000 fans.

With the award came inter­est from sev­er­al Chris­t­ian-music labels,
but the guys are tak­ing their time in decid­ing what direc­tion to
take because they don’t want to be put in the “Chris­t­ian music
box.”

Niki­ta finds an anal­o­gy in his faith: “If Jesus was here today and
was an artist, I don’t think he would be labeled a Chris­t­ian music
artist. If you look in the Bible, Jesus spoke in the syn­a­gogue.
Then turn a page, and he’s stand­ing in a boat or on a moun­tain
talk­ing to every­body. Then he goes and dines with tax col­lec­tors,
peo­ple who spoke against the church.

“Jesus was in every mar­ket, and I guess that is what we want to
do.”

“That’s exact­ly what we want to do,” inter­jects Rus­lan.

All that trav­el tak­ing the mes­sage to peo­ple can take its toll, but
to the broth­ers, it’s a way of life that is lead­ing to a big­ger
pic­ture.

“We love it. There’s noth­ing else we’d rather do. Though it’s to
the point that home is becom­ing the van,” Niki­ta says. “We’re
kin­da like gyp­sies, but we get a chance to meet so many peo­ple and
influ­ence so many peo­ple.”

Influ­enc­ing peo­ple at any age is tough, but for these young
musi­cians it seems to flow nat­u­ral­ly. “She Said” holds a much
deep­er mes­sage than your every­day pop song about rela­tion­ships.

“We wrote it about let­downs,” Niki­ta says.

“And failed promis­es,” Rul­san adds. “The orig­i­nal idea came from
charms in the

Bible. It says, ‘Charms are decep­tive, and beau­ty is fleet­ing.’
That’s the prin­ci­ple we based the song on.”

With their new­found suc­cess, Ever­found is not done dream­ing,
set­ting its sights on fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of such
“crossover” bands as the Fray, Switch­foot and Mat Kear­ney.

“Even­tu­al­ly we want to play world tours and packed-out are­nas,”
Lar­ry says. “We don’t dream small — we have a big God.”