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Brooks & Dunn and Friends - Final Date on The Last Rodeo Tour to Play Nashville as a Benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
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August 10 Nashville Performance Wraps the Duo’s Final Tour Together
Venues Announced for Most Shows, on Sale March 6
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 2010
Nashville, TN – Superstar duo Brooks & Dunn made a special appearance today during the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville to announce that the final show on their upcoming concert trek, The Last Rodeo Tour, will be Brooks & Dunn and Friends, a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. Set to take place at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on August 10, with special guests to be announced, the show will mark the concert culmination of the duo’s groundbreaking 20-year career.
In sharing the news, Brooks & Dunn offered this statement: “For several years, we have tossed around ideas for the best way to make a contribution to the Museum. We have a tremendous appreciation for the road that was traveled by the great stars that came before us. Their long nights in station wagons with instruments strapped on the roofs built an industry that allowed us to cruise around in big tour buses. Our last show together will certainly be a historic point in our lives and careers, and we feel it’s only right that the proceeds from this concert go to a place where all history in our business is so reverently preserved.”
“The enormity of this gesture, including the endorsement it implies and the example it sets, is something the Museum’s board and staff will contemplate with gratitude for a very long time,” said Museum Director Kyle Young. “We are grateful to Kix and Ronnie for supporting our educational mission and for putting the Museum on the radar screen of their nation of fans. The only word for them is magnificent!”
The Nashville show will join the majority of The Last Rodeo Tour dates going on sale March 6. A complete list of dates and markets appears below. Visit www.livenation.com or www.ticketmaster.com for tickets. Fans can watch the duo’s website at www.brooks-dunn.com for all the latest tour information.
Ticket price for the Nashville show will be $25 (plus convenience fee). The show will be produced by Brian O’Connell on behalf of Live Nation.
Alternating selected dates on The Last Rodeo Tour will be Jason Aldean (on most shows through June13), with Gary Allan on board for the remaining dates. Tyler Dickerson will be opening throughout the tour. Guests for the Nashville show will be announced at a later date.
The tour follows last year’s release of Brooks & Dunn’s career-spanning double-disc collection, #1s … and then some, which features 30 favorites in all, including an amazing 23 #1 hits.
(dates below on sale March 6, except as noted )
March 20* -- Houston, TX -- Houston Rodeo
April 23 -- Sacramento, CA -- SleepTrain Amphitheatre
April 24 -- Mountain View, CA -- Shoreline Amphitheatre
April 25* -- Indio, CA -- Empire Polo Grounds
April 30 -- Spokane, WA -- Spokane Arena
May 1** -- Tacoma, WA -- TacomaDome
May 2*** -- Vancouver, BC -- General Motors Place
May 4*** -- Calgary, AB -- Pengrowth Saddledome
May 5*** -- Edmonton, AB -- Rexall Place
May 6*** -- Saskatoon, SK -- Credit Union Centre
May 14 -- St Paul, MN -- Xcel Energy Center
May 15** -- Bloomington, IL -- US Cellular Center
May 16 -- Columbus, OH -- Schottenstein Center
May 21 -- Phoenix, AZ -- Cricket Pavilion
May 22 -- Albuquerque, NM -- The Pavilion
May 27 -- Wichita, KS -- InTrust Bank Arena
May 28 -- Tulsa, OK -- BOK Center
May 29 -- Dallas, TX -- Superpages.com Center
May 30* -- Baton Rouge, LA -- Bayou Fest
June 3 -- Charleston, WV -- Charleston Civic Center
June 4 -- Charlotte, NC -- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 5 -- Raleigh, NC -- Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
June 11** -- Tampa, FL -- Ford Amphitheatre
June 12** -- W Palm Beach, FL -- Cruzan Amphitheatre
June 13 -- Jacksonville, FL -- Jacksonville Arena
June 17 -- Hershey, PA -- Giant Center
June 18 -- Virginia Beach, VA -- Virginia Beach Amphitheater
June 19 -- Washington, DC -- Jiffy Lube Live
June 25 -- Hartford, CT -- Comcast Theatre
June 26 -- Boston, MA -- Comcast Center
June 27 -- Bethel, NY -- Bethel Woods Pavilion
July 2* -- Dauphin, MB -- Dauphin Country Fest
July 8* -- Fort Loramie, OH -- Country Concert at Hickory Hills Lake
July 9 -- Cleveland, OH -- Blossom Music Center
July 10 -- Darien Lake, NY -- Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 15 -- Atlanta, GA -- Lakewood Amphitheatre
July 16 -- Indianapolis, IN -- Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 17* -- St Clairsville, OH -- Jamboree in the Hills
July 18 -- Cincinnati, OH -- Riverbend Music Center
July 23* -- Minot, ND -- North Dakota State Fair
July 24* -- Cheyenne, WY -- Cheyenne Frontier Days
July 25** -- Omaha, NE -- Qwest Center
July 29 -- Detroit, MI -- DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 30 -- Pittsburgh, PA -- First Niagara Pavilion
July 31 -- Philadelphia, PA -- Susquehanna Bank Center
August 6** -- Kansas City, MO -- Sprint Center
August 7** -- St Louis, MO -- Verizon Wireless Music Center
August 8** -- Chicago, IL -- First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
August 10 -- Nashville, TN -- Bridgestone Arena
* Shows currently on sale
** On-sale date TBA
*** On sale March 5
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