After taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year, Beyoncé has unveiled her next tour in support of that album, Cowboy Carter. 

The upcoming tour begins April 28 with four dates at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium and stops at Soldier Field in Chicago for two nights, May 15 and May 17. 

Beyoncé led this year’s Grammys with 11 nominations and came home with three. 

She is now the most-awarded Grammy winner of all time with 35 wins and the most nominated recording artist with an unbelievable 99 nominations. 

Her 2023 Renaissance Tour is in the top 20 of the highest-grossing tours of all time. 

Aldean goes Full Throttle

Three-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean will tour this summer. 

The Full Throttle Tour will kick off at Blossom Music Center near Cleveland on May 23 and heads to Grand Rapids much later in the tour, stopping at Van Andel Arena on Sept. 4. 

Other stops include Pine Knob Music Theatre in Detroit on Sept. 11 and Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Chicago on Sept. 13. 

Though he has not yet revealed the inspiration for the tour’s name, it is widely believed he will have a new album of the same name by the time the tour opens. 

Aldean’s latest album, Highway Desperado, came out in 2023. 

Nate Smith, RaeLynn, and Dee Jay Silver will open the shows.

Krauss schedules big tour

Modern bluegrass icons Alison Krauss & Union Station will tour for the first time in a decade this year. 

The band will take on a massive, 73-date itinerary beginning in April, including a stop at Mershon Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio, April 19, followed by PNC Pavilion in Cincinnati on June 3, Chicago Theatre in Chicago on June 7, Everwise Amphitheater in Indianapolis on Aug. 21, Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre in Detroit on Sept. 6, and Jacobs Pavilion in Cleveland on Sept. 7. 

The tour, dubbed the Arcadia Tour, will help introduce fans to new music as this year Krauss and Union Station are slated to release their first new material since their Grammy-winning 2011 album, Paper Airplane.

Simple Minds return to US

Simple Minds are embarking on their biggest North American headlining tour in four decades, visiting arenas and amphitheaters across the country with Soft Cell and Modern English. 

“Been a while, but absence makes the heart grow fonder,” vocalist Jim Kerr said in a statement. “Simple Minds are ecstatic at the prospect of touring so extensively in the U.S. and Canada this coming spring.” 

While they are most known in the U.S. for their chart-topping 1985 hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” from The Breakfast Club soundtrack, they have also charted with “Alive and Kicking,” “Sanctify Yourself,” “Let There Be Love,” “She’s a River,” and their No. 1 hit in the UK, “Belfast Child.” 

The Alive & Kicking Tour coincides with the 40th anniversary of the band’s 1985 banner year and will be routed to our area at the end of the trek visiting Huntington Bank Pavilion in Chicago on June 20, Pine Knob Music Theatre in Detroit on June 21, and Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville on June 22. 

This year not only marks the band’s return to North America but also the arrival of new music. They released “Your Name in Lights” to celebrate the BBC premiere of Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible, a documentary about the band currently streaming in the U.K. and, eventually, streaming in the U.S.

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