Who says attendance at concerts has to suffer because of a down economy?
This Sunday night’s show featuring the David Crowder Band, the group Seabird and Danyew is officially sold out, and that’s a pretty good accomplishment in Calvary Church, one of Lancaster County’s largest.
The DCB sometimes doesn’t get the attention it deserves as a top-notch, always-interesting, always-challenging band (that also has won three Dove Awards, Christian music’s Grammys).
But its namesake leader with the trademark Tom Petty-esque voice has been reaching people in a powerful way for more than a decade now, and they have a depth to the commitment from their fans that a lot of groups don’t in this Twitter-and-forget-it age.
The band began when Texarkana, Texas, native Crowder realized that almost half of the students at Baylor University were not attending church at the Christian university.
So Crowder co-founded University Baptist Church in 1995 while he was still a student.
And the current six-member DCB has kept on pumping out the eclectic rock-and-roll worship ever since.
With Sunday’s show sold out, the next time we can expect to see Mr. Crowder will be at Creation in summer 2010 or some future date.