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LifeLight Festival is an annual free outdoor Christian music festival held over Labor Day weekend in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.




History


LifeLight Festival was started by Alan and Vicki Greene in 1998 as an afternoon concert at Good News Reformed Church on Valley View Rd, drawing about 2,000 people. By 2001, the festival was moved to the W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls to accommodate the growing crowds. In 2002, attendance tripled from the year before, growing to 32,000 attendees over a 3-day weekend. LifeLight has since grown to over 320,000 attendees over a 3-day weekend, expanding to 6 stages, with a budget of nearly $700,000 each year. After outgrowing previous locations, the LifeLight festival found a new permanent home for the Festival on a family farm near Worthing, South Dakota. The 2010 Festival was the first at the new location. It is a free concert but provides a great economic boost to Sioux Falls. Festivals like this one said to bring up to $10 Million.
Since 2005, LifeLight has also sponsored spring and fall tours featuring LifeLight artists. They started as local tours with primarily local artists but over the years, LifeLight Tours has partnered with several national and regional bands/speakers and now travel well beyond the Midwest for tour dates. Past tours have featured artists John Reuben, Brian Welch, Sanctus Real, Phil Joel, Disciple, Project 86, Children 18:3 and many more and traveled to cities in Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, and South Dakota as well as other states. The 2013 festival in South Dakota hosted main showings of Plumb, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, and Skillet.
No festival was held in 2020-2022 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic
In 2023, the festival was held at the 8th & railroad district parking lot in downtown Sioux Falls. Despite temperatures of over 100 degrees, 30,000 people attended. In 2024 the festival is to be held at Nelson Park in eastern Sioux Falls to increase capacity.




Attendance


1998: 1,500
1999: 4,000
2000: 6,500
2001: 10,000
2002: 32,000
2003: 110,000
2004: 240,000
2005: 275,000
2006: 263,000
2007: 320,000
2008: 320,000
2009: 270,000
2010: 320,000




Artists






= 2013 Festival

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For Today
Plumb
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Levi the Poet
Flyleaf
Building 429
Newsboys
Rhett Walker Band
Audio Adrenaline
Fireflight
We Are Leo
Phinehas
Unarmed For Victory
At The Wayside
Aaron Gillespie
Children 18:3
The City Harmonic
One Accord
Sean Michel
Ravenhill
Spencer Kane
From The Eyes of Servants
Love Out Loud
John Reuben
Je'kob
Shuree
Disciple
Lybecker
Tru Serva
Double Vision
Grant Lockner
Rapture Ruckus




= 2012 Festival

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Tenth Avenue North
Skillet
Peter Furler
Five Iron Frenzy
House of Heroes
Sanctus Real
Leeland
Mandisa
Christy Nockels
Downhere
Run Kid Run
The City Harmonic
Remedy Drive
Becoming the Archetype
Andy Mineo
Aaron Gillespie
Everyday Sunday
Abandon Kansas
Sleeping Giant
KB
John Rueben
The Wedding
Wolves at the Gate
Children 18:3
Jenny & Tyler
Write This Down
Love & Death
One Sonic Society
These Hearts
Matt Hammitt
GoFish
Silverline
Stephanie Smith
Kiros
Everfound
Fades Away
We Are Leo
Ilia
Willet
An Epic No Less
George Moss
The Skies Revolt
Loftland
Classic Petra
Broken Walls
Marah in the Mainsail
Triple Stitch
Brandon Reid
Alan Greene
Rachelle Hope
Brian Sumner
Tom Henderson
Josh Brewer




= 2011 Festival

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Main Stage:

Relient K
Tenth Avenue North
Jeremy Camp
Sidewalk Prophets
Britt Nicole
Manafest
Hawk Nelson
Fireflight
Manic Drive
-Souled Out Stage:

Disciple
Blindside
Write This Down
Children 18:3
The Wedding




= 2010 Festival

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Abandon
BarlowGirl
Brian "Head" Welch
Children 18:3
Colossus
David Crowder Band
Day of Fire
Disciple
Eric Timm
Everyday Sunday
Family Force 5
From The Eyes Of Servants
House of Heroes
John Mark McMillan
John Reuben
Kari Jobe
MercyMe
Mikeschair
Parachute Band
Reilly
Seabird
Showbread
Silverline
Spoken
These Hearts
The Overseer
Triple Stitch and More
White Collar Sideshow
Willet
Write This Down




= 2009 Festival

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A Life Echoed
Children 18:3
David Lunsford
DecembeRadio
Disciple
Downhere
Esterlyn (band)
Everyday Sunday
Everfound
Family Force 5
FM Static
House of Heroes
John Reuben
Krystal Meyers
Kutless
Life's Breath
Lincoln Brewster
Manic Drive
Michael Gungor Band
Nevertheless
Newsboys
Remedy Drive
Run Kid Run
Rush of Fools
Sanctus Real
Sarah Reeves
Seventh Day Slumber
ShowbreadSilverline
Spoken
Stellar Kart
Superchick
Thousand Foot Krutch
Tenth Avenue North
The Switch Kids
The Wedding
TruEmotion
VOTA
WILLET




= 2008 Festival

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Headliners of the 2008 festival, as announced on Life 96.5, were Switchfoot, Michael W. Smith and Casting Crowns. Other 2008 participating bands included:
33Miles
Ayiesha Woods
As I Lay Dying
Building 429
Day of Fire
Everyday Sunday
Family Force 5
Grits
John Reuben
Leeland
Lincoln Brewster
Matthew West
MxPx
Natalie Grant
Phil Joel
Remedy Drive
Sanctus Real
Seventh Day Slumber
Showbread
The Afters
This Beautiful Republic
VOTA




= 2007 Festival

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Jars of Clay, TobyMac and Chris Tomlin were announced as the headliners of the 2007 festival.
Other major bands and artists for 2007 included:
Anberlin
BarlowGirl
Big Daddy Weave
Casting Pearls
Family Force 5
Leeland
Tait
Phil Joel
Project 86
Stellar Kart




= Previous Bands/Speakers

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Audio Adrenaline
Casting Crowns
Day of Fire
Dr. James Dobson
FFH
GoFish
Jeremy Camp
Mark Schultz
Newsboys
Pillar
Point of Grace
Rebecca St. James
Relient K
Rick Warren
Salvador
Sanctus Real
Skillet
Steven Curtis Chapman
Superchick
Switchfoot
Third Day
Thousand Foot Krutch
Three Cord Wonder
Tree63




References

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• LifeLight Music Festival
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• Building 429
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