Casting Crowns announce dates for first headlining tour

Christian music sensation Casting Crowns announces their first headlining Lifesong Tour in support of the band’s upcoming new project, Lifesong, to be released on August 30th.  This certain-to-be record-breaking Fall 2005 tour will visit 38 cities from September 29th through December 4th. The Lifesong Tour will feature GMA’s reigning New Artist of the Year, Building 429 and Guest Speaker/Emcee for the night, Tony Nolan.

In an unprecedented effort to make the show affordable for everyone, the band has desired that ticket prices remain very reasonable and will make them available to fans at www.castingcrowns.com.  Additionally driven by a desire to connect with and encourage local youth pastors, Casting Crown’s Mark Hall will be leading youth-worker clinics in several cities visited on the tour (to be determined). Some markets will hold an afternoon clinic on Saturdays and all others will have an intermission meeting with youth pastors.

As the Gospel Music Association’s reigning Group of the Year, Casting Crowns has just wrapped the extremely successful All Things New tour with Steven Curtis Chapman and Chris Tomlin, having hit 72 cities with multiple sellouts, and reaching a combined audience of more than 350,000. Including their Group of the Year win, Casting Crowns and Mark Hall were honored with seven total Dove Awards at the 2005 Gospel Music Awards, including Song of the Year (“Who Am I”) and Songwriter of the Year for Hall.

Recently, the band appeared on the cover of the May 23 issue of Pollstar magazine, the music industry tradepaper for concert touring, this after gracing the February 2005 cover of CCM magazine’s Reader’s Choice Awards, having been voted Favorite Band, Favorite New Artist and Favorite Album (Casting Crowns).

With their self-titled debut album having reached RIAA Platinum status (for sales of one million copies), and the platinum certification of their Live From Atlanta DVD release, Casting Crowns continues to notch up remarkable achievements for a new artist. The project’s first three radio singles, “If We Are The Body,” “Who Am I,” and “Voice of Truth,” have all spent multiple weeks atop numerous charts, including a record-breaking 13 weeks at number one for their hit, “Voice of Truth” on R&R’s Christian AC Monitored chart. When their debut CD was released in September 2003, it quickly earned the highest first-week sales of any debut artist on Nielsen SoundScan Christian market sales chart for the year. For the year 2004, Casting Crowns was the most played artist on all Christian radio formats combined, and performed to more than one million people in concert.

Opening act, Building 429 set multiple radio records with their debut single “Glory Defined,” having hit the number one position on eight different radio charts. The song climbed to number one on Christian Radio Weekly’s (CRW) AC chart faster than any other single in the publication’s history, and remained in the chart’s top spot for ten consecutive weeks. On Radio & Records (R&R), “Glory Defined” was the first single from a debut artist to ever hold 100% of the AC panel all at the same time, and only the second time for any artist, debut or veteran.  They have most recently toured with Jeremy Camp, Barlow Girl, Todd Agnew and Starfield.

Building 429 is also involved with the Redeem The Vote Campaign with member Jason Roy acting as spokesperson for the organization, garnering support  through appearances on Fox News Live, CNN, Nightline, and all major network affiliates.

Special guest speaker and emcee for the evening, Tony Nolan, is no stranger to Christian audiences. With his evangelistic focus and relevant speaking style, Tony speaks to over 800,000+ students through radio, television, festivals, concerts and conferences every year. Tony is also the founder and leader of UPGRADE, a “salvation awakening” insurrection, with a core mission to facilitate corporate encounters with God through prayer, concerts of worship, and biblical teaching that supernaturally transforms hearts, resulting in a resurgence of First Century outreach. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia with his wife Tammy, and their three children.


For more information on Casting Crowns, please visit www.castingcrowns.com or www.reunionrecords.com. 

Lifesong Tour Dates 
*all dates and cities subject to change

Date                     Venue                                                  City

Sep 29                   Municipal Auditorium                            San Antonio, TX           

Sep 30                   El Paso County Coliseum                       El Paso, TX      

Oct 1                    Phoenix First Assembly                           Phoenix , AZ    

Oct 2                    U.C. Irvine-Bren Center                          Irvine, CA        

Oct 3                    Visalia Convention Center                       Visalia, CA       

Oct 4                    Adventure Christian Church                    Rocklin, CA      

Oct 7                    Salem Armory                                       Salem, OR        

Oct 8                    Overlake Christian Church                      Redmond, WA 

Oct 9                    Spokane Arena                                      Spokane, WA   

Oct 10                  BSU Pavilion                                         Boise, ID         

Oct 13                  San Jacinto Baptist Church                      Amarillo, TX    

Oct 14                  Alltel Arena                                           North Little Rock, AR   

Oct 15                  Bancorp Southcenter                              Tupelo, MS      

Oct 21                  Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion             The Woodlands, TX      

Oct 22                  Oil Palace                                              Tyler, TX         

Oct 23                  Bicentennial Center                                 Salina, KS         

Oct 27                  Prairie Capital Convention Center            Springfield, IL  

Oct 28                  St. Charles Family Arena                         St. Charles, MO

Oct 29                  Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center         Birmingham, AL           

Nov 3                   Lake Charles Civic Center                       Lake Charles, LA          

Nov 4                   First Baptist Church                                Jackson, MS     

Nov 5                   Wild Adventures Theme Park                  Valdosta, GA   

Nov 10                 Florence Civic Center                             Florence, SC     

Nov 11                 Rock Church                                         Virginia Beach, VA        

Nov 12                 Stabler Arena                                         Allentown, PA  

Nov 13                 Hylton Memorial Chapel                        Woodbridge, VA          

Nov 17                 Von Braun Center                                  Huntsville, AL   

Nov 18                 Olive Baptist Church                              Pensacola, FL   

Nov 19                 First Baptist Church of Woodstock          Woodstock, GA           

Nov 26                 Frankfort Convention Center                  Frankfort, KY  

Nov 29                 Dow Event Center                                Saginaw, MI     

Dec 1                   Grand Wayne Convention Center            Fort Wayne, IN

Dec 4                   Elmbrook Church                                 Brookfield, WI