MercyMe bring their spring 2027 tour to Crown Coliseum on April 1

The Christian-music mainstays play Fayetteville's biggest room with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton, and tickets are already on sale.

Five months out is early to circle a date, but for a church youth group or a family trying to get a block of seats together, it's about right. MercyMe play Crown Coliseum on Thursday, April 1, 2027, with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton opening. Doors are at 5:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m., according to the tour's promoter, Awakening Events, and the date is on the Crown Complex's own calendar.

If you were planning to wait for the onsale, you've already missed it. Artist, K-LOVE and venue presales opened Tuesday, Oct. 20, and the general sale began Wednesday, Oct. 21. Tickets are through Ticketmaster, linked on this page.

Fayetteville is one stop on MercyMe LIVE, a spring run that K-LOVE is presenting with Fuller and Burton on the bill. As announced, the tour covers 31 dates from March 11 to May 2, starting in Roanoke, Va., and finishing in Evansville, Ind. — which puts the Crown Coliseum show past the halfway point, when a tour has found its pacing and the openers have had a month of crowds to learn on.

The band is coming off a busy stretch. Their 12th album, Wonder + Awe, gave its name to a tour that ran through spring 2026, and this new run keeps them on the road in the same season a year later. For MercyMe, the shows have become something like a reunion — songs people know from car rides and Sunday services, sung back by an arena.

Songs people know from car rides and Sunday services, sung back by an arena.

That's where the room fits. Crown Coliseum holds about 10,000, the largest seated venue in the Crown Complex, and it's the kind of stage a tour like this is built for: big enough for production and for families to spread out, but still local — no drive to Raleigh or Charlotte, no hotel night on a school week. The openers suit the bill, too: Fuller and Burton are both part of K-LOVE's tour presentation, which tends to mean an evening that runs together rather than three separate sets.

What to know: it's a Thursday night, so with doors at 5:30 the realistic plan is to come straight from work or school and eat at the complex or before. Large groups should buy together now, while blocks of adjacent seats are still possible. And because presale-code and resale sites are already circulating listings for this show, stick to the venue's and Ticketmaster's own pages.

April is a long way off. The seats you want won't be.

Sources: MercyMe LIVE – Spring 2027 (Awakening Events) (awakeningevents.com); Crown Complex Official Website (crowncomplexnc.com); Crown Coliseum – Fayetteville, NC (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.com); MercyMe LIVE Spring Tour with Ben Fuller & Peter Burton (K-LOVE) (klove.com); MercyMe announces LIVE 2027 tour dates, presale tickets and openers (SeatGeek) (seatgeek.ca); MercyMe's Wonder + Awe tour to open in Greensboro (Greensboro Coliseum Complex) (gsocomplex.com); MercyMe slates Wonder + Awe tour for spring (musicrow.com)