Christian rockers Stellar Kart coming to town

SPRINGFIELD — With “Me and Jesus,” the gentlemen of Stellar Kart not only had a No. 1 Christian hit in 2006, they also won the 2007 Dove Award for rock song of the year.

Now the band is headed this way.

Stellar Kart will play at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 27 N. Wittenberg Ave.

Tickets are $12; $8 for students. To order, visit itickets.com or call (800) 965-9324.

The band recently hopped to INO Records — home to the likes of MercyMe, The Fray and Todd Agnew — for its fourth album, last year’s “Everything is Different Now.”

Be sure to check out their punky cover of Norman Greenbaum’s original Jesus-freak anthem, “Spirit in the Sky.”