MercyMe books Cross Insurance Arena for April 8
The Christian band's LIVE 2027 tour stops in Portland on a Thursday night in April, with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton on the bill.
Arena dates in Portland don't come around every week, and spring 2027 just got one. MercyMe plays Cross Insurance Arena on Thursday, April 8, 2027, at 7 p.m., with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton opening. The show was announced October 16, and tickets run $30 to $187.50 through Ticketmaster.
Portland is one stop on MercyMe's LIVE 2027 tour, a run of 31 spring dates that opens March 11 in Roanoke, Virginia, and wraps May 2 in Evansville, Indiana, according to the tour announcement as summarized by SeatGeek. The routing has the band in Lowell, Massachusetts, the night after Portland, so this is the New England swing, and Maine gets the first night of it.
The support bill is the newly announced part. Ben Fuller and Peter Burton were added for the spring dates, described in Nebraska coverage of the tour's Lincoln stop by WOWT as two artists bringing their own voices and perspectives to the run. Lineups vary by city on this tour, so it's worth noting Portland's bill carries both.
The first night of MercyMe's New England swing belongs to Portland.
Why this room? Cross Insurance Arena holds about 9,500 for concerts, which makes it a natural home for a tour at this scale. A band that fills arenas across the country needs that kind of floor, and for fans in Portland it means not having to make the drive to Boston for an arena-level Christian music night. It's also a Thursday, which keeps the night family-friendly with a 7 p.m. start.
On getting tickets: the Ticketmaster page is live now, and the range is wide, from $30 seats up to $187.50 at the top. Elsewhere on the tour, general on-sale opened within days of the announcement — the Lincoln date, for example, went on sale October 21 after an October 20 presale, per WOWT — so the cheaper sections are the ones to move on first rather than waiting for spring.
April is a long way off on Halloween weekend. But arena nights in this town are rare enough that it's worth putting this one on the calendar now.
Sources: JamBase: MercyMe at Cross Insurance Arena, Apr 8 2027 (jambase.com); SeatGeek: MercyMe announces LIVE 2027 tour dates (seatgeek.ca); WOWT: Christian music band MercyMe heads to Lincoln in April (wowt.com); Ticketmaster: MercyMe Portland (ticketmaster.evyy.net)
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