David Crowder Contemporary Christian Band in Du Quoin for Concert June 30
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Pepsi Mid-America in Marion has picked up the pieces of a concert by the world famous contemporary Christian group The David Crowder Band originally scheduled for the SIU Arena and is underwriting the concert that is being moved to the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds Saturday, June 30 at 6 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased at itickets.com.
The concert will also feature the groups The City Harmonic and Remedy Drive.
The City Harmonic was 2011 Breakout Artist of the Year. The City Harmonic barreled its way from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada onto the music scene with Introducing The City Harmonic, an EP featuring "Manifesto," which soared to No. 5 on iTunes and captivated over a million viewers on YouTube. Top that with becoming the best selling new artist on Billboard's Top Current Digital Sales Chart (over 80K downloads), and it's enough, among life's crazy distractions, to get your attention.
Remedy Drive, a high-energy rock band from Nashville, TN, has David Zach on lead vocals, guitar, and electric piano; Timmy Jones on drums and backing vocals; Corey Horn on bass and backing vocals; and Dave Mohr on guitars and backing vocals. The band's most recent release is a five song EP called "Light Makes a Way." Remedy Drive is one of the hardest working bands touring today, consistently playing between 150-200 shows per year.
When David Crowder was attending Baylor University in Waco, Texas in the mid 1990's, he learned that more than half of the 14,000 students enrolled in the college were not attending church. This was very disturbing to Crowder, and after many conversations with a friend of his, they decided to start a church that was college friendly. Thus, University Baptist Church was born. That was 1996. Today, almost a decade later, nearly 1,000 people, most of which are college students, are attending the church. Although David Crowder's music ministry has grown significantly since then, he can still be found leading worship there on many Sundays.
Crowder deeply wanted to find a way to connect these college students to the heart of God, so he began writing songs that he hoped the students at his school could relate to. A band began to form, and a few years and some new members later, the current lineup came into being and they all committed themselves completely to the ministry.
The group is known for their rock/pop/inspiration/worship music that spans a whole range of spiritual emotions. It ministers to Christians while at the same time reaches and connects with non-Christians.In the Spring of 2004, they launched their first headlining tour. The summer of that same year, they had the opportunity to tour with Michael W. Smith and MercyMe. 2005 has brought them two Dove Award nominations: Modern Rock Recorded Song of the Year for "Revolutionary Love", and Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year for The Lime CD. This comes as a complete surprise to them and they are completely honored by it.
Although the David Crowder Band is comprised of six different individuals, they have all committed themselves to work together in an effort to give hope to those who have left the church, as well as those who have come back.