Forrest Frank
Moody Center
Austin, TX
July 30, 2026
Photos and Review by Roy Vergara
Moody Center filled from every direction on Thursday night. Teenagers moved in packs, families took up whole rows, and out on the floor kids were already up on shoulders. Most of the people coming in had been singing these songs long before there was a tour attached to them. On the way in they were handed wristbands. Most people put them on without much thought.
Tori Kelly opened at 7:00 pm from a side platform. Partway through she walked out to the round mound at the center of the floor, a low green hill with a platform on top, and sang from the middle of the arena before heading back. She arrived in Austin behind “God Must Really Love Me,” her sixth album and the first she has made as a mother. Kelly wrote most of it in the months around her son’s birth, some of it into voice memos while nursing him, and has been pairing it with worship standards on this tour. Three Grammys in, she is singing about smaller and closer things than she used to.
Forrest Frank walked out at 8:12 pm and took the center stage, opening with “The Jesus Generation,” the song the tour takes its name from. The top of the platform turned, so no section held his back for long. The cross above him changed color from song to song. Then the wristbands the crowd had been wearing all night came alive at once. The tour has been selling out arenas all summer and “Child of God II” has held number one on Billboard’s Christian albums chart longer than any record before it. Frank was born in Houston and went to college at Baylor, and the room sounded like it already belonged to him.
Partway in he went out into the crowd and came back with a young girl named Amanda. Both wrists were in pink casts and she looked like she wanted to be anywhere else. He asked if she wanted to take the rap verse and she told him she was nervous, so he stayed close and the band held while the whole arena got behind her. Then in she went, the microphone resting on two pink casts, every word of it, and the room came apart. Frank stepped back and let her have it.
He kept giving it away after that. The wristbands split the arena, half in blue and half in red, and he split the singing along the same line. Blue sang “you are good all the time.” Red answered “all the time you are good.” Israel Houghton’s “You Are Good” went back and forth like that, over and over, until the two halves were running it without him and he was just standing there listening.
For a stretch he left the mound for the side stage Kelly had opened the night on. He sat down at the piano and told the crowd that the only place there is victory is in Jesus, then went into “No Longer Bound,” the song he wrote and put out on his own years ago, and the arena went quiet with him. He stayed out there and asked if anyone wanted to see how he makes a song, then opened Logic on his laptop and built a track from nothing while the whole process went up on the screen overhead. What came out of it was “Thankful.” Cory Asbury came out to lead “Amazing Grace,” which closed the main set at 9:48 pm.
The chant started before the lights had finished going down. At 9:52 pm the band came back and “Lemonade” started, and Frank was not on the stage. He had turned up in the upper section, and the whole building turned around to find him.
He came back down for “Never Get Used to This” and finished it on the floor, surrounded rather than watched, and the night ended at 10:03 pm.
Moody Center hosts a lot of different kinds of nights, and this one landed somewhere between a party and a church service. Two acts, a crowd that covered every age in the building, and a room full of wristbands nobody thought twice about until they lit up. Tori Kelly and Forrest Frank reminded everyone that faith and a good time were never really at odds.
Check out the gallery below to relive the night or see what you missed.
Tori Kelly
Forrest Frank
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