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History
LifeLight Festival cite web |author=LifeLight Communications |publisher=LifeLight Communications |date=undated |url=http://www.lifelight.org |title=LifeLight.org :: |accessdate=2008-01-19 |format=html, Javascript, Flashmedia ] was started by Alan and Vicki Greene in 1998. It started as an afternoon concert on a local church lawn, 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. Now, LifeLight has grown to over 320,000 attendees over a 3-day weekend, expanding to 6 stages, with a budget of nearly $700,000 each year. It is a free concert.cite web |author=LifeLight Communications |publisher=LifeLight Communications |date=undated |url=http://www.lifelight.org/festival/festival-history |title=LifeLight Festival :: History |accessdate=2008-01-19 |format=html, Javascript, Flashmedia ]2008 Festival
Switchfoot ,Michael W. Smith andCasting Crowns were announced onLife 96.5 as the headliners of the 2008 festival, which will be held again over Labor Day weekend at Wild Water West. Other 2008 participating bands include:Lincoln Brewster Natalie Grant Leeland Family Force 5 Sanctus Real As I Lay Dying Grits Day of Fire Remedy Drive
VOTA (formerlyCasting Pearls )The Afters Ayiesha Woods Phil Joel Building 429 Matthew West 33Miles John Rueben Seventh Day Slumber Everyday Sunday MxPx This Beautiful Republic 2007 Festival
Jars of Clay ,TobyMac andChris Tomlin were announced as the headliners of the 2007 festivalcite web |author=LifeLight Communications |publisher=LifeLight Communications |date=2007-07-13 |url=http://www.lifelight.org/websys.php?module=News&func=display&sid=32 |title=LifeLight.org |accessdate=2008-01-19 |format=html, Javascript ] . Other major bands and artists for 2007 includecite web |author=LifeLight Communications |publisher=LifeLight Communications |date=2007-07-13 |url=http://www.lifelight.org/festival/artists-speakers |title=LifeLight Festival :: Artists / Speakers |accessdate=2008-01-19 |format=html, Javascript, Flashmedia ] :Anberlin Family Force 5 Barlow Girl Big Daddy Weave Tait Phil Joel Leeland Casting Pearls Stellar Kart Project 86 GoFish Switchfoot
SalvadorRebecca St. James Audio Adrenaline Newsboys Jeremy Camp Superchick FFH
SkilletCasting Crowns Steven Curtis Chapman Dr. James Dobson Rick Warren Third Day Point of Grace Thousand Foot Krutch Sanctus Real Mark Schultz Tree63 Day of Fire Pillar
Three Cord WonderRelient K
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