Tenth Avenue North

Hailing from Palm Beach, Florida, Tenth Avenue North got its name from a major east-west road in Palm Beach County. Considering the band formed when the guys attended Palm Beach Atlantic University, it was a fitting name that represented their journey.

Comprised of Mike Donehey (vocals/guitar), Jeff Owen (electric guitar/background vocals), Jason Jamison (drummer) and Ruben Juarez (bass), the goal of Tenth Avenue North’s debut album Over and Underneath was to communicate the love of Jesus, plain and simple. It made a favorable first impression while featuring hit singles "Hold My Heart," “Love is Here” and "By Your Side," which earned the 2010 Dove Award "Song of the Year."

In 2010, the band’s second album, The Light Meets the Dark, released to critical and commercial fanfare, thanks to a promising first single “Healing Begins.” The song and album as a whole were designed to call listeners to repentance by confessing their sins in accordance with James 5:16, "Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." Coupled with this verse is the idea of mercy, and the bands' songs "You Are More" and "Strong Enough To Save," remind us all that regardless of much we have sinned, nothing is too far for God's grace to encompass.

Tenth Avenue North is set to release its third album this August entitled The Struggle featuring its single "Losing." The album, as Mike Donehey explains on the band's official website, acknowledges the hardships of life but also that we are not in this battle alone. "Though it seems like He may have forsaken us, that He’s forgotten us, we need only look to the scars in His hands to remember He too entered the storm. He calmed the seas we could not calm. He broke the chains we could not break."