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Eric Church<\/a> is giving fans a preview into the cinematic concert extravaganza that his fans will see in February, when Eric Church: Evangeline Vs. The Machine Comes Alive <\/em>hits IMAX theaters<\/a> in the United States and Canada for two nights only, on Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n The limited theatrical release, a collaboration from IMAX, MCA, Mercury Studios and Q Prime South, will feature Church in concert, performing the songs from his eighth studio album Evangeline Vs. The Machine<\/em> front to back, with Church also performing more of his hit songs, such as \u201cGive Me Back My Hometown,\u201d \u201cSinners Like Me\u201d and \u201cSpringsteen.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n The concert features Church reimagining these songs with a six-piece band, a four-piece horn section, four-piece strings section and an eight-piece choir, along with vocalist Joanna Cotten. The concert film was created and recorded over two nights at The Pinnacle in Nashville earlier this year, with the performances to be heard in IMAX\u2019s 12-channel sound.<\/p>\n \u201cThis project was never about fitting into a box \u2013 it\u2019s about breaking the damn thing wide open,\u201d Church said in a release. \u201cSeeing it in IMAX takes that to another level. The scale and sound experience is like nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n To coincide with the theatrical release, on Feb. 13 Church will also release a 19-track live album, Evangeline Vs. The Machine: Comes Alive<\/em>. Pre-orders\/pre-saves are available<\/a> through MCA, with preview tracks \u201cDesperate Man<\/a> (Live at The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN) and \u201cKnives of New Orleans <\/a>(Live at The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN).\u201d<\/p>\n See the trailer below.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Church is giving fans a preview into the cinematic concert extravaganza that his fans will see in February, when Eric Church: Evangeline Vs. The Machine Comes Alive hits IMAX theaters in the United States and Canada for two nights only, on Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 2026. The limited theatrical release, a collaboration from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[29110,348718,341564,406339,328685],"class_list":["post-2157264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard","tag-eric-church","tag-imax-theaters","tag-limited-theatrical-release","tag-theatrical-release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018This-Project-Was-Never-About-Fitting-Into-a-Box.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157266,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157264\/revisions\/2157266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}