Casting Crowns Coming to Giant Center This Spring

Multi-platinum selling and Grammy winning group Casting Crowns bring "The Very Next Thing" Tour to Giant Center on Friday, April 28 at 7:00 p.m. Special guests for the evening will be K-LOVE Radio's Male Artist of the Year Danny Gokey and Unspoken.

Tickets for this show are $20.85, $28.35, $45.85 and $75.85 (tax and applicable fees apply), and are available at Giant Center Box Office. They can be charged by phone at 717-534-3911 or 800-745-3000, and online at www.HersheyEntertainment.com or www.TicketMaster.com.

"The Very Next Thing" Tour supports Casting Crowns' newest studio album, The Very Next Thing. This marks the group's 15th release and eighth studio album since the label debut release in 2003. With more than 10 million records sold, Casting Crowns has held the position of Billboard's top-selling act in Christian music since 2007.

Casting Crowns began in, serves in and continues to be rooted in the local church. It is at the local level that they are walking along with people in ministry and where the inspiration for albums are formed. "Because we have the honor of walking with people in our churches, we get to see what people are going through - the issues that are impacting everyone now," shares front man Mark Hall. "It is in these situations that ideas are born for what we all need to hear right here right now." The Very Next Thing is full of intimate songs as well as upbeat, fresh sounding tracks that will meet the listener with lyrics that impact with a strong message song after sonG. Hall shares the inspiration behind the new album and title. "We are all in different stages of 'next.' There's a next step from where you are right now. We all feel like there's a stage that we have to reach to move on to what is next - but God has you right here right now for your 'next,' and all of these songs touch on that idea." For more information, head to www.CastingCrowns.com.

Six-time Dove Award Nominee and BMG recording artist Danny Gokey now claims the recent honor of being named Male Artist of the Year at the 2016 K-LOVE Fan Awards, where he also took home the award for Breakout Single for his current #1 hit "Tell Your Heart To Beat Again." Gokey became a favorite of millions of fans as a Top 3 finalist on Season 8 of "American Idol," which propelled his career and earned him three chart-topping albums (My Best Days, Hope In Front of Me and Christmas Is Here) and a Barnes & Noble Top 5 autobiography (Hope In Front of Me). For more information, visit www.DannyGokey.com.

Unspoken released their new album, Follow Through, in August 2016 and the project debuted at No. 7 on Billboard's Christian Albums chart, the highest debut of the band's career. The first single from the record, "Higher," has already reached Top 20 on Billboard's National Audience chart and is still rapidly climbing. For more information, go to www.UnspokenMusic.com.