Casting Crowns: Come To The Well Tour 
with Sanctus Real and The Afters
Rupp Arena
Friday, October 21 at 7:00pm
In an unprecedented six-year span with nearly 4.5 million career album sales, a GRAMMY Award, an American Music Award, 23 Dove Awards and 8 chart-topping radio singles, Casting Crowns remains focused on discipleship through music.
Coming to Rupp Arena on October 21, 7:00 p.m., Casting Crowns will introduce Christian music newcomer Lindsay McCaul and perform their Come to the Well tour, based on the band's new studio project of the same name, to be released October 18th. The band will also perform with contemporary Christian Rock bands Sanctus Real and The Afters. Tickets will go on sale August 8 at the Lexington Center Ticket Office (859) 233-3535, Ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster Outlets.
With lead singer and songwriter Mark Hall's 18 years in youth ministry, Casting Crowns' message remains rooted in the student services he has led on a weekly basis since 2001, at Eagles Landing Baptist church near Atlanta. The songs start as messages for his 400 teenagers and their families. With boldly honest, hard-hitting lyrics, the band continues to challenge, strengthen and pour into the body of Christ, giving listeners a fresh, relevant perspective on loving God and loving people.
Living life with a kingdom focus, a reaching-out, loving-the-world-like-Jesus-does purpose - that's the focus of the band's fourth studio album titled Until The Whole World Hears. Millions of fans won't be disappointed as these seven gifted musicians continue to speak truth into today's culture through this new 12- song collection.
In the musical world of GRAMMY-nominated Sanctus Real, substance and style have peacefully co-existed over the course of five albums that have garnered seven No. 1 radio singles (and six more that landed in the Top 5). Not afraid to experiment with new textures or leave things stripped-down and simple if the song calls for it, the Dove Award-winning act that features Matt Hammitt (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Rohman (lead guitar), Mark Graalman (drums), Dan Gartley (bass) and Pete Prevost (guitar) also hasn't shied away from tackling life's tough questions.
Offering glimpses of the guys' own joys and heartbreaking struggles, that refreshing level of candor-and unflinching commitment to honesty-has endeared the band to fans around the globe. And now with the March 9 release of Pieces of a Real Heart, Sanctus Real has continued to push themselves both artistically and thematically. Fueled by the real-life experiences culled from a life often spent traveling from city to city, not to mention the maturing that inevitably results when raising families, the album is confessional, thoughtful and really anything but surface-level.
After losing their longtime friend and manager to a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer, two band members deciding to part ways, a nearly life-threatening car wreck and a new member losing a close friend one week after joining the band, The Afters have never been more grateful for new seasons. And this season's a good one. Holding on to their faith and their passion for making music, the new line-up-including founding members Josh Havens (lead vocals/keys/guitars) and Matt Fuqua (vocals/guitars), along with new members Dan Ostebo (bass) and Jordan Mohilowski (drums)-headed into the studio to craft Light Up the Sky (INO), the most accessible album of the band's career.
"The story behind Light Up the Sky is a part of the story of all of us," says Fuqua. "[It's] a picture of what it looks like when you make it through [a] really challenging time, and you look back and see how God was using all of those things for good and that you were never alone."
"When we started writing this record, we sat down and talked through all that we'd been through and started looking for God's fingerprints in all of it," explains Havens. "It was amazing to see how constant He was in everything. We had so many signs along the way that He was with us."
Despite the tragedy and turmoil leading up to recording the record, the band members agree that the recording process for Light Up the Sky ranks at the top of their recording experiences thus far. "The chemistry in the band and with our producer [Dan Muckala] has never been better," says Havens. "It was the most fun I've ever had making music. It was a refreshing period for us as a band and as people, and I think Light Up the Sky reflects that."
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