MercyMe returns to Amarillo for the first time since 2021

The spring LIVE 2027 tour brings the Texas-born band back to the Amarillo Civic Center auditorium on Friday, April 16, 2027.

MercyMe last played Amarillo on Aug. 12, 2021, at the Amarillo Civic Center. Next spring the band comes back to the same building on Buchanan Street.

MercyMe plays the Amarillo Civic Center on Friday, April 16, 2027, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available through civicamarillo.com, and the date was announced Oct. 20.

The show is part of MercyMe LIVE 2027, the band's spring tour. SeatGeek's tour announcement lists 31 dates running from Thursday, March 11, at the Berglund Center in Roanoke, Va., to Sunday, May 2, at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. Presales started Oct. 20 and the general on-sale followed on Oct. 21, so tickets have been out for a little over two weeks.

The spring run's announced openers are Ben Fuller and Peter Burton. TicketNews and WOWT confirmed that pairing for the tour's Lincoln, Neb., date a week later. Fuller, who records for Provident Entertainment and Sony Music, put out a live album, *Black Sheep Tour: Songs from the Road*, in June. Burton is a contemporary Christian and worship artist. Check the Civic Center's own listing for the Amarillo lineup before you go.

For MercyMe, this is a familiar kind of tour: a spring arena-and-theater run through mid-size cities that bigger tours often skip. Amarillo gets few acts of this size, and the band's audience here crosses generations. Expect to see families who have been going to these shows since the early albums sitting next to teenagers who know the newer songs.

Amarillo gets few acts of this size, and the band's audience here crosses generations.

The room has a history of its own. The Amarillo Civic Center Complex opened on Aug. 31, 1968, after voters approved it in May 1964. It replaced the old Municipal Auditorium, which went up in 1923. The architects were Caudill Rowlett Scott, working with Hannon and Daniel, and they built a Brutalist complex covering six city blocks under one roof, with a coliseum and a theater side by side. The auditorium side was home to the Amarillo Symphony for nearly four decades, from 1968 until the orchestra moved to the Globe-News Center in 2006. Today it seats 2,324, a scale where a band like MercyMe can still feel close to the room.

That size is the appeal. With a 2,300-seat house and a deep catalog, this is a show where you can hear the harmonies clearly from the back rows and where the crowd singing along is part of the night.

Some practical notes: a 7 p.m. start on a Friday means families can be home at a reasonable hour, and downtown parking around the Civic Center fills up fast on show nights. Get there early, especially if you're coming in from Canyon, Hereford or Borger.

Nearly six years is a long gap for a band that has kept Texas in its routing. Amarillo's MercyMe fans have waited long enough. This one's worth getting tickets for now.

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