Following the massive success of the inaugural staging of the Come Alive gospel concert last year, featuring Grammy-winning gospel artiste CeCe Winans, the event returns on August 1, Emancipation Day, at King’s House East Lawn.

This year’s line-up reads Grammy-winning multi-platinum selling gospel artiste Michael W Smith, Papa San, Petra Kaye, Johnmark Wiggan, the a capella outfit HUMBLE, and Jermaine Edwards.

Erin Hosin, chairman of Come Alive Collective, told the Jamaica Observer shortly after the launch of the 2026 staging at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston that a second concert was never on the cards.