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Grammy-winning state prima Kacey Musgraves volition header Denver’s Ball Arena connected Feb. 16, 2022, arsenic portion of her 15-date North American tour, joining an early-2022 calendar crammed with postponed shows astatine the venue.
Musgraves’ “Star Crossed: Unveiled,” announced contiguous by promoter AEG Presents, is simply a “limited” circuit down the caller medium “Star-Crossed,” to beryllium released Sept. 21. Tickets are connected merchantability astatine 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, astatine kaceymusgraves.com/tour.
Fans tin motion up for aboriginal entree astatine starcrossedunveiled.com, AEG Presents officials said successful a property statement. American Express cardholders besides tin bargain tickets earlier the wide nationalist opening astatine 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, done Wednesday, Sept. 8.
Prices were not disposable arsenic of this writing.
Musgraves’ amusement is portion of a jam-packed docket for aboriginal 2022 astatine Ball Arena, including respective shows that volition person been delayed by up to 2 years. Big concerts during those months — astir taking spot successful February and March — see Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Celine Dion, Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber, John Mayer, Tyler the Creator and Deftones.
The announcement besides comes connected the heels of dozens of canceled oregon postponed tours by different large artists, specified arsenic BTS, Garth Brooks, Nine Inch Nails and Stevie Nicks. Similar concerns implicit rising cases of the delta variant of COVID-19 — or, successful immoderate cases, affirmative tests by set and touring members — person caused Florida-Georgia Line, Colorado’s String Cheese Incident, Neil Young, Pixies, Counting Crows, Korn and others to cancel idiosyncratic shows oregon runs of shows.
Promoters and touring artists person progressively responded by mounting rules that see impervious of vaccination oregon antagonistic COVID-19 tests with 48 to 72 hours of the show, astatine minimum, portion immoderate artists person acceptable adjacent stricter rules for their shows.
It each amounts to tricky timing for Musgraves, whose promotional rhythm for “Star-Crossed” has kicked into precocious cogwheel with a New York Times profile and a Friday, Aug. 27, video driblet of her new single, “Justified.”
The unrecorded euphony arena has lately go a battleground successful the civilization wars astir vaccinations and COVID-19 rules. Live Nation does not yet person a request for artists to beryllium afloat vaccinated, The Los Angeles Times reported. That’s a imaginable occupation since artists similar Van Morrison, who has publically opposed vaccine requirements, has a Live Nation-booked lease lawsuit astatine the Hollywood Bowl connected Oct. 2, and Eric Clapton, who starts a U.S. circuit successful September, has said helium volition cancel shows astatine immoderate venue that requires impervious of vaccination, the Times reported.
Despite the concerns and parade of postponements, large nationalist tours are inactive announcing caller Denver shows (like Musgraves’) portion adding strict requirements for entry, specified arsenic Phish (which has a Labor Day tally coming up successful Commerce City) and Dead & Co. (which has Oct. 22-23 concerts astatine Greenwood Village’s Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre). Both are outdoors.
More than a half-dozen euphony festivals, specified arsenic The UMS (which concluded connected Aug. 29), are barreling forward earlier unrecorded euphony heads indoors for the autumn and winter.
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