Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks will carry out at M&T Bank Stadium, a part of a push to carry extra huge live performance acts to the downtown Baltimore venue that’s house to the Ravens.
The rock icons will play Saturday, Oct. 7 on the stadium. Tickets go on sale to most people Jan. 20 at 10 a.m.
“The concert will go a long way” in highlighting Baltimore, mentioned Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott, including that officers are trying ahead to bringing extra world-class occasions to the town.
Past performers on the stadium embody Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Billy Joel, Metallica, One Direction, Justin Timberlake and U2.
Joel, 73, whose hits embody “Uptown Girl,” “Just The Way You Are” and “The Longest Time,” and Nicks, 74, are launching a joint tour this yr. Nicks, a member of Fleetwood Mac, can also be a well-liked solo artist.
The tour is being promoted with the slogan, “Two Icons, One Night.” The first introduced date is March 10 in Los Angeles. The different introduced stops, in accordance with Joel’s web site, are Dallas; Nashville, Tennessee; Philadelphia; Columbus, Ohio; Kansas City; Boston, and Minneapolis.
Ticketmaster didn’t listing costs Thursday for the Baltimore live performance. Tickets for the primary present in Los Angeles ranged from $65 to $2,455.
In 2019, Joel turned the primary performer to play a live performance at neighboring Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Thursday’s announcement on the 25-year-old Ravens stadium follows state Board of Public Works approval final week of the NFL workforce’s new, 15-year lease with the Maryland Stadium Authority. The lease begins a brand new interval of stadium upgrades and incentivizes the membership to carry main occasions to the 71,000-seat stadium.
Under the brand new settlement, the Ravens will retain all income from non-NFL occasions, corresponding to live shows, faculty soccer video games and exhibition soccer matches, and the state collects a ten% admissions and amusement tax. The tax is utilized to the bottom value of every occasion ticket, with 80% going to the stadium authority and the remainder to the town.
That’s a change from the earlier lease, underneath which the workforce didn’t preserve rights to all of the revenues and the authority gave a negotiated portion — various from occasion to occasion — of the tax to the membership to subsidize losses in case the occasion misplaced cash.
No different live shows have been finalized.
“We’re always looking to bring these kinds of events to Baltimore,” mentioned Rich Tamayo, senior vp of stadium operations. “Bringing Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks, I think it’s something that we want for the city, and being one of 10 venues to do it, we feel honored.” Nine venues have been introduced.
The Oct. 7 live performance will likely be in the course of the 2023 Ravens season. The workforce’s opponents for subsequent season have been introduced, however not their schedule.
The pandemic difficult efforts to schedule reveals at Baltimore’s stadiums. Country star Garth Brooks was speculated to carry out within the fall of 2021 at M&T Stadium however canceled attributable to a surge in COVID-19 circumstances.
As the pandemic eased, former Beatle Paul McCartney performed his first Baltimore present since 1964 final June at Camden Yards. Also final yr, the baseball stadium hosted Dru Hill, Smash Mouth, Flo Rida and The Struts in a postgame summer season live performance sequence.
Another main act coming this yr to the town is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, which is able to play an overhauled venue now often known as the Baltimore Arena on April 7. The Boss additionally performed on the web site, beforehand often known as the Baltimore Civic Center and Royal Farms Arena, in 1973, 2009 and 2016. Springsteen would be the first main efficiency after the world completes a $200 million face-lift.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com