Brooks’ hot-selling tour to land at Raiders’ stadium
“Ropin’ the Wind” might be easier than lassoing tickets to this one.
Country superstar Garth Brooks, whose aforementioned third record made him a superstar upon its 1991 release, selling 17 million copies worldwide, will play the Raiders’ new 65,000-seat, $2 billion home on Aug. 22. The show is the first non-football event announced for Allegiant Stadium.
The show is part of Brooks’ ongoing, three-year stadium tour, which launched last March in St. Louis.
Judging by the record-setting pace shows have sold out in other markets, though, fans will have to act fast to score what will surely be one of the hottest tickets of the year.
All 74,000 tickets for Brooks’ May 22 appearance at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, for instance, were snapped up in 90 minutes in what will be the largest crowd in that venue’s history;
70,000 tickets for Brooks’ May 16 concert at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati were gone in 75 minutes.
At stadiums from Denver to Pittsburgh, Brooks has been crushing attendance records, his most recent show being a 31-song, two-hourplus concert Feb. 22 at Ford Field in Detroit.
“Brooks and his band delivered well-executed renditions of
well-chiseled hits, eliciting earsplitting roar after earsplitting roar from the Detroit crowd,” the Detroit Free Press observed of the show.
Raiders President Marc Badain said the team welcomes Brooks as one of the first events to take place at the team’s soon-to-be home, hinting it is just the beginning of what the multipurpose stadium will attract to the Las Vegas Valley.
“As the stadium gets closer to completion, the excitement around the opening is growing every day,” Badain said. “Bringing one of the
world’s greatest entertainers here this summer is indicative of the type of event Allegiant Stadium will host for decades to come.”
Brooks last played in the valley at T-mobile Arena in 2016.
Before that, he held a residency at Wynn Las Vegas from 2009 to 2014, where he performed 187 shows.
But his return to town in August will be his biggest show here yet.
It will also be the largest country music event in the city since the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting in 2017.
Tickets for the Vegas concert go
on sale at 10 a.m. March 13 and are $94.95.
Fans can buy tickets next week on Ticketmaster’s website, via Ticketmaster’s Garth Brooks Line at 1-800-654-2784 or via the Ticketmaster mobile app.
There is an eight-ticket limit.
Contact Jason Bracelin at jbracelin@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0476. Follow @ Jasonbracelin on Twitter. Reviewjournal staff writer Mick Akers contributed to this report.