CASTING CROWNS at Palais Theatre

CASTING CROWNS with special guest Randy Stonehill Parachute Music is pleased to announce the return of Casting Crowns for three Australian shows this January. The Grammy Award-winning worship band’s last jaunt to Australia saw them play to a sold-out Hillsong Convention Centre in Sydney; 2012 will see the band playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Casting Crowns will be joined on all dates by Christian music forefather Randy Stonehill From the initial ripples of their record-breaking, platinum-selling eponymous debut, it was clear that Casting Crowns had something special. The band’s hard-hitting anthems of hope have made a deep connection with a post 9-11 America; with songs like 2005’s number one hit “Praise You in This Storm”, proving the gospel message to be as needed and as relevant as ever. Despite an unprecedented 4.5 million career sales, a Grammy Award, 23 Dove Awards and 8 chart-topping singles, the band, led by enigmatic Mark Hall, will tell you the mission remains as simple as it was back in their student worship roots: “Our main purpose, above all else, is to know Him more.” Randy Stonehill Alongside the likes of Barry McGuire, Keith Green and Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill was a cornerstone of the emerging Contemporary Christian Music scene in the 1970’s. Through CCM’s heyday, Stonehill’s brand of folk was compared to that of James Taylor and Bob Dylan – he and Norman were often called “the Lennon/McCartney of Christian music”. Stonehill’s 1976 album WELCOME TO PARADISE went on to be lauded as one of Christian music’s most influential albums of all time.