page_title: Ichthus Music Festival
section_title: Deep End Stage
hierarchical_section_title: Ichthus Music Festival / Deep End Stage
caption_attribution_description: English: Ichthus Festival Deep End Stage
context_page_description: The Ichthus Music Festival was an annual Christian music festival originally held in Wilmore, Kentucky, but later moved to Lexington, Kentucky. Begun in 1970, Ichthus was the oldest Christian music festival in the United States. The festival began as the brainchild of Dr. Bob Lyon and a group of seminary students at Asbury Theological Seminary in response to Woodstock Festival and similar music festivals of that era. The first events were held on the grounds of the Wilmore Campmeeting. In December 2012, the Ichthus Festival Board announced the end of the long-running festival. Creation Festivals took over managing the event in 2013 with plans to resume the festival in 2014. The festival was later postponed to 2015. In 2016, Creation Festivals announced that they would no longer hold Ichthus. The rights to the Ichthus name were acquired by Asbury University.
  Originally an outdoor spring event, the festival was often hampered by poor weather. Beginning in 2006, the festival was moved to mid-June when local weather was more favorable. The festival consisted of six stages: The Main Stage, The Deep End, The Edge, two Indie Stages, and The Galleria Stage.
context_section_description: The Ichthus Deep End Stage was dedicated primarily to Christian metal, heavy metal, and punk rock bands. Deep End was the first secondary stage added to the festival and it grew to include its ministry tent and sales area. Though it was a secondary stage, it featured some well known names in Christian music, and up and coming acts such as Twenty One Pilots, The Devil Wears Prada, Anberlin, Pillar, Haste the Day, Day of Fire, Sleeping Giant, and Disciple.
  The Deep End stage area included tents for band merchandise sales and Christian gothic ministries, such as Hope for the Rejected and Grave Robber.
caption: Deep End Stage
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D80", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Ver.1.01", "Image DateTime": "2009:06:22 23:38:38", "Image ExifOffset": "184", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "780", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "15787", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/5", "EXIF FNumber": "7/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "1600", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:06:12 22:55:58", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:06:12 22:55:58", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "290241/125000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "361471/100000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "-1/3", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "18/5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Spot", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "18", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "90", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "90", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "27", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "High gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Hard", "EXIF Sharpness": "Hard", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0"}