MercyMe brings a Sunday-night arena show back to Bossier City in April

The Christian hitmakers return to Brookshire Grocery Arena on Sunday, April 18, 2027, with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton, their first local stop since October 2024.

Next spring, one of the biggest names in Christian music is giving Shreveport–Bossier a reason to keep Sunday going past supper. MercyMe has booked a Sunday-evening arena date on the Bossier side of the river, and for a lot of families around here that is the easiest kind of night out there is: home from service, an early dinner, and in your seats before dark.

MercyMe plays Brookshire Grocery Arena in Bossier City on Sunday, April 18, 2027, at 6:30 p.m., with Ben Fuller and Peter Burton opening. Tickets run $27.45 to $215.65 through Ticketmaster. The date was announced Oct. 16, and general on-sale for the tour opened Oct. 21.

It will be the band's first local show since Oct. 25, 2024, when MercyMe played the same 14,000-capacity building. Two and a half years is not a long absence by arena-tour standards, but a good deal has happened in between, and the band comes back with a different record to draw from and a new pair of openers on the bill.

The Bossier City date falls in the back half of the spring leg of MercyMe's LIVE 2027 tour, which opens March 11 at the Berglund Center in Roanoke, Virginia, and wraps May 2 at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Five nights after the Bossier show, the tour reaches Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 23. It is a run that zigzags from Virginia to the Plains and back toward the Ohio River, and the ArkLaTex made the cut.

The biggest change since that 2024 visit is the music. In August 2025 the band released Wonder & Awe, its 12th album, so April's crowd has a batch of songs that were not in the catalog the last time MercyMe came through. How much of the new record lands in the set is the band's call. For longtime fans, figuring out which old favorites made it and which new ones earned a spot is half the fun of the night.

The openers are worth showing up early for, especially with a 6:30 start. Ben Fuller brings contemporary Christian music with a streak of country-influenced storytelling, a mix that should go over well in a part of the country where those two radio dials sit right next to each other. He has been working the road hard enough to put out a live album drawn from his Black Sheep Tour. Peter Burton, a contemporary Christian and worship artist, rounds out the bill, which makes for a long, full evening of music before the headliner even walks out.

A few practical notes. It is a Sunday show with an early start, so plan on a sensible finish before the work and school week. The ticket range is wide, from under $30 at the low end to more than $200 at the top, which leaves room for a youth group, a date night or a whole row of cousins at different price points. And since tickets have been on sale since October, waiting until spring to decide may mean picking from what is left.

Plenty of people who were in that building in 2024 will be back in April, and a few of them will bring someone new. That is how a band like this keeps coming back to Bossier City: one Sunday crowd at a time.

Sources: MercyMe announces LIVE 2027 tour dates (SeatGeek) (seatgeek.ca); Christian music band MercyMe heads to Lincoln in April (WOWT) (wowt.com); MercyMe Lincoln tickets on sale (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); MercyMe To Release 'Wonder & Awe' August 8, 2025 (Louder Than The Music) (louderthanthemusic.com); Ben Fuller unveils new live album Black Sheep Tour: Songs From the Road (weekendtop20countdown.com); MercyMe at Brookshire Grocery Arena (JamBase) (jambase.com)