MercyMe brings its spring 2027 tour to Propst Arena on March 21

The band behind "I Can Only Imagine" headlines a Sunday night at the Von Braun Center, with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton opening.

MercyMe comes to Huntsville, and on Sunday, March 21, 2027, the band plays Propst Arena at the Von Braun Center, with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton opening.

Awakening Events, which promotes the tour, lists doors at 5:30 p.m. and a 7 p.m. show. The Live Nation venue page lists the three-act bill. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.

The Huntsville date is part of MercyMe LIVE, the band's spring 2027 run. It opens March 11 in Roanoke, Virginia, and runs into early May, finishing in Evansville, Indiana, on May 2, per the Awakening Events tour page. Huntsville is a Sunday in the run's second week. After it, the band heads down to Pensacola for March 24. Openers vary on some nights of the tour, but Live Nation has both Fuller and Burton on the Huntsville bill.

If you know one MercyMe song, it's "I Can Only Imagine." Singer Bart Millard wrote it about his father's death, starting from a phrase he found in an old notebook late one night on the band's bus, and it first appeared on the band's independent 1999 album *The Worship Project*, according to the song's Wikipedia history). Re-recorded for the band's 2001 major-label debut, *Almost There*, it went to No. 1 in early 2002, won Song of the Year at the 2002 Dove Awards, and later became the best-selling Christian single of all time and the basis for a 2018 film. Before all that, MercyMe was a working band: formed in Edmond, Oklahoma, in 1994, with six independent albums before INO Records signed it, per the band's Wikipedia entry.

If you know one MercyMe song, it's "I Can Only Imagine."

The arena has its own history in Huntsville. The Von Braun Civic Center opened on March 14, 1975, and Elvis Presley played five shows there from May 30 through June 1, according to the Von Braun Center's history. The arena took the Propst name after a $15 million renovation announced in 2008, with the Propst family contributing $5 million. It has hosted big events ever since, most recently the 2026 Conference USA men's basketball tournament. A Christian music show in a Sunday-night arena isn't unusual here.

There are almost five months to wait, but tickets are on sale now.

Sources: Awakening Events — MercyMe LIVE Spring 2027 (awakeningevents.com); Live Nation — Von Braun Center Propst Arena events (livenation.com); Live Nation — MercyMe events (livenation.com); Ticketmaster — MercyMe, Ben Fuller, Peter Burton, Huntsville 03-21-2027 (ticketmaster.com); Wikipedia — MercyMe (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia — I Can Only Imagine (MercyMe song) (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia — Von Braun Center (en.wikipedia.org)