In support of their upcoming new album, Lifesong (Releases on August 30th), acclaimed band Casting Crowns announces their first headlining tour.

Entitled the "Lifesong Tour," the band will visit 38 cities with popular Christian rock group Building 429 and Guest Speaker/Emcee Tony Nolan from September 29th through December 4th.

Hoping 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.

Casting Crowns recently wrapped up the 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.

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.

Lifesong Tour Dates
*All Dates & Cities Subject To Change

9/29 San Antonio TX Municipal Auditorium
9/30 El Paso TX El Paso County Coliseum
10/1 Phoenix AZ Phoenix First Assembly
10/2 Irvine CA Bren Center Irvine
10/3 Visalia CA Visalia Convention Center Visalia
10/4 Rocklin CA Adventure Christian Church Rocklin
10/7 Salem OR Salem Armory
10/8 Redmond WA Overlake Christian Church
10/13 Amarillo TX San Jacinto Baptist Church
10/14 Little Rock AR Alltel Arena
10/15 Tupelo MS Bancorp Southcenter
10/21 Woodlands TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
10/22 Tyler TX Oil Palace
10/27 Springfield IL Prairie Capitol Convention Center
10/28 St. Charles MO The Family Arena
10/29 Birmingham AL Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center
11/3 Lake Charles LA Lake Charles Civic Center
11/4 Jackson MS First Baptist Church
11/5 Valdosta GA Wild Adventures Theme Park
11/10 Florence SC Florence Civic Center
11/11 Virginia Beach VA Rock Church
11/12 Allentown PA Stabler Arena
11/13 Woodbridge VA Hylton Memorial Chapel
11/17 Huntsville AL Von Braun Center
11/18 Pensacola FL OIive Baptist Church
11/26 Frankfort KY Frankfort Convention Center
11/29 Saginaw MI Dow Event Center
12/1 Fort Wayne IN Grand Wayne Convention Center
12/3 Des Moines IA First Federated Church
12/4 Brookfield WI Elmbrook Church