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Hozier's concert tour is in support of his latest album, "Unreal Unearth." This is Hozier's third album, released on August 18, 2023. With the carrier singles "Eat Your Young," "Francesca," and "All Things End," the album is a massive success. It debuted at number one on the Irish and UK charts. It also topped the charts in several countries, including the US, where it topped Billboard's US Folk Albums, Top Alternative Albums, and Top Rock Albums. Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Sweden, the UK, and Finland are among the many countries where the album performed exceptionally well.

The 16-track album is both a commercial and critical success. Rolling Stone praised Hozier for his courage to explore a dark, emotional world wherein he did not shy away from any themes. This showed that Hozier has mastered the skill of exploring new themes in his songs --- and he is doing it magnificently. This praise does not come as a surprise because Hozier is one of those artists who has made a mark in the industry by producing socially conscious songs. His penchant for powerful lyricism has always been evident, even in his earlier works. His breakout hit "Take Me To Church" is a bold song that uses religious terminologies to describe a "romantic relationship in the face of Church discrimination."

To say that “Take Me To Church" is a big hit is an understatement. It is one of the most massive songs of the decade, amassing millions of sales all over the world. Thirteen times Platinum in the US alone? Well, that is indeed something for a relatively new artist. It reached multiple platinum certifications in Australia, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, and Norway, among many other countries. All this success somehow foreshadowed the brilliant career Hozier would be having in the years to come. For someone who did not expect to become a big artist, Hozier has come a long long way. Ten years after he released Take Me To Church, the Irish singer has sold over 5 million albums, garnered several awards and nominations, and remains one of the most sought-after artists of his generation.

Calling all fans in Washington, this is your chance to see the one and only Hozier. His stop at The Evergreen State will be one of the most memorable in this tour because he will perform at the Gorge Theatre for a three-night concert. Catch him on his second night on Friday, September 6, and be awed by the distinct artistry. Reserve your tickets now. Hit the "Get Tickets" link.

Hozier connects Irish and Palestinian histories at sold-out New York concert

Hozier was both political and poetical at the first of four sold-out shows at new york's forest hills stadium.

Jokes about the straight boyfriends of bisexual women attending Pride could just as easily apply to a Hozier concert, based on both the attendees and the rousing speech for inclusion and tolerance he made during his encore Tuesday night in Forest Hills, Queens. At the show, attended by The A.V. Club , LGBTQ+ rights were clearly top of mind; at one point the singer fastened a Pride flag to his mic stand. But Hozier (on tour for his 2023 album Unreal Unearth and the 2024 Unheard EP) used the subject as a jumping-off point to deliver an almost academic lecture about the history of protest movements in the United States and how they influenced similar movements in Ireland and around the world, ending with a call to end the genocide in Palestine.

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Hozier spent the evening in New York casting a spell over the crowd, drawing in their attention and enthusiasm as the night wore on to achieve maximum impact for his climactic remarks. Surprisingly, he started the show with “Too Sweet,” his most recent hit, which he subsequently thanked fans for making the first number-one song of his career. He also became the first-ever artist to have four consecutive sold-out shows at New York’s historic Forest Hills Stadium. The sold-out crowd for his first show clearly enjoyed the signature songs (“Jackie & Wilson,” “Francesca”), but the relationship between artist and audience truly locked in when Hozier moved to a smaller stage to perform a perfectly-timed “Cherry Wine” solo at sunset, followed by a twilight rendition of “De Selby (Part 1).” (As the songwriter explained, the Irish Gaelic lyrics translate in part to “you come to me like nightfall.”) It should be noted that Hozier is a powerhouse vocalist with impressive range; throughout the entire set, his live vocals sounded exactly like his records, except for the moments where he went bigger and bolder.

Much has been made of the decline of concert etiquette in the post-COVID era, but this outdoor summer show was an example of a genuinely positive communal experience. Watching the general admission crowd follow the musician from one stage to another like moths to a flame or the flashlights flickering on up in the riser seats are bonuses to seeing a great performer. Even the frequent complaints about filming on phones didn’t seem like such a problem at all. It was more like seeing a group of people taking a picture of a great sunset or the full moon all at once—it’s a human instinct to try to capture something beautiful and special, even if it’s kind of ordinary. No matter if it happens during the next three nights in Forest Hills or throughout the rest of the year as Hozier continues his tour, hearing a chorus of 10,000-plus people tenderly singing along to “ Cherry Wine ” is singularly gorgeous, and not to be missed.

It was in this spirit of community that Hozier finished a rollicking set—multiple times naming and thanking his band members, as well as much of the crew (and even had everyone sing Happy Birthday to the head of his lighting crew)—and re-emerged for a powerful and political encore. He tracked the throughline from the fight for women’s rights to LGBTQ+ rights to the fight to end apartheid in South Africa, preaching that many civil rights movements required the global community to push back. The lengthy speech reached its peak when he condemned the violence in Rafah and called for an end to the genocide of Palestinians.

“No matter where you come from—whether you’re Palestinian, whether you’re an Israeli citizen, you’d want anybody to live in peace and security and safety. And that would mean seeing a Palestine free from occupation, a Palestine free from violence, and a Palestine free to pursue meaningful self-determination and statehood,” Hozier said, encouraging the crowd to reach out to their representatives about the issue. “As I said, I come from Ireland, Ireland has its own history with occupation, centuries and centuries now. And it was two communities coming together and saying, ‘You know what, peace is better,’ and looking at a political solution, a long-term political, peaceful solution. And that was a peace agreement that America was party to brokering as well, too, and it was a huge part of the American citizenship and the American administration was part of brokering that peace agreement, and as a result, I grew up in a peaceful Ireland.”

This was all a prologue to the Wasteland, Baby! track “Nina Cried Power,” which on that record features the singer and activist Mavis Staples. Hozier said Staples, who with her family band The Staple Singers became voices of the American civil rights movement, is an example of Irish revolutionary James Connelly’s quote that “no revolution was ever complete without its poetical expression.” Before concluding the night with his own poetical expression, he left the crowd with a call to action for “A revolution of love, a revolution of honest human witness, a revolution of kindness and radical inclusion that I think all of us would rather see in this world.”

Allison Russell to Follow Hozier Opening Stint With Headlining Tour of U.S. Theaters

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Allison Russell already had a fairly full year set out ahead of her, with the opening slot on a Hozier tour that continues in arenas through the end of September. Now she’s announced she will quickly follow that with a headlining tour of theaters, with Kara Jackson as her opener, beginning a month after she gets off the road from the Hozier outing.

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Russell appears on Hozier’s new EP, singing the song “Wildflower & Barley,” a number they perform together each night on his tour. In kind, he appeared on her “Returner” album, lending harmony to the song “Requiem.”

Russell was just named as a nominee for artist of the year at the Americana Honors & Awards, which take place in Nashville in September. (The singer will not be on hand, as she will be in the middle of a three-night stand with Hozier at L.A.’s Forum at the time.) That nomination comes on the heels of this year’s Grammys, where Russell was nominated for four awards and picked up a win for best American roots performance.

Russell spoke with Variety last year about her acclaimed “Returner” album — read that interview here — and about the “Demons” music video she did with director Ethan Tobman (read here ).

Headlining tour dates:

Oct 25 – Higher Ground Ballroom – South Burlington, VT+

Oct 26 – Royale – Boston, MA+

Oct 28 – Webster Hall – New York, NY+

Oct 30 – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA

Oct 31 – 9:30 Club – Washington D.C.+

Nov 02 – The Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL

Nov 03 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN+

Nov 05 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO+

Nov 06 – The Commonwealth Room – South Salt Lake, UT+

Nov 08 – Egyptian Theatre – Boise, ID+

Nov 09 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR+a

Nov 11 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA+

Nov 12 – The Belasco – Los Angeles, CA+

Nov 15 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX+

Nov 16 – Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall – Fort Worth, TX+

Nov 17 – The Scoot Inn – Austin, TX+

+-With Support from Kara Jackson

Previously announced tour dates:

# -Supporting Tyler Childers

*-Supporting Hozier

^-Supporting Sarah McLachlan

May 14 – Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park – Wilmington, NC*

May 15 – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach – Virginia Beach, VA*

May 17 – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD*

May 19 – Broadview Stage at SPAC  – Saratoga Springs, NY*

May 21 – Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview – Syracuse, NY*

May 22 – Darien Lake Amphitheater – Darien Center, NY*

May 23 – Massey Hall – Toronto, ON 

May 24 – Old Dutch Church – Kingston, NY

May 25 – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion – Camden, NJ*

May 27 – CFG Bank Arena – Baltimore, MD#- 

May 28 – Ruoff Music Center – Noblesville, IN*

May 29 – Van Andel Arena – Grand Rapids, MI*

May 31 – Pine Knob Music Theatre – Clarkston, MI*

Jun 01 – Railbird Music Festival – Lexington, KY

Jun 04 – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills, NY*

Jun 05 – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills, NY*

Jun 07 – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills, NY*

Jun 08 – Forest Hills Stadium – Forest Hills, NY*

Jun 19 – Budweiser Stage – Toronto, ON ^

Jul 24 – Maine Savings Amphitheater – Bangor, Maine*

Jul 26 – Newport Folk Festival –  Newport, RI

Jul 27 – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts – Bethel, NY*

Jul 28 – The Ross Farm, Basking Ridge, NJ

Jul 29 – The Pavilion at Star Lake – Burgettstown, PA*

Aug 06 – Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB#

Aug 08 – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC #

Aug 10- Hayden Homes Amphitheater- Bend, OR#

Aug 11-  Hayden Homes Amphitheater- Bend, OR#

Aug 13 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheater – Maryland Heights, MO*

Aug 16 – Breese Stevens Field – Madison, WI*

Aug 17 – Xcel Energy Center – Saint Paul, MN*

Aug 20 – Canada Life Centre – Winnipeg, MB*

Aug 21 – SaskTel Centre – Saskatoon, SK*

Aug 23 – Scotiabank Saddledome – Calgary, AB*

Aug 24 – Rogers Place – Edmonton, AB*

Aug 27 – First Interstate Arena at MetraPark – Billings, MT*

Aug 28 – Ford Wyoming Center – Casper, WY*

Aug 30 – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre – Greenwood Village, CO*

Aug 31 – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre – West Valley City, UT* 

Sept 03 – Ford Idaho Center Ampitheater – Nampa, ID*

Sept 04 – Hayden Homes Amphitheater – Bend, OR*

Sept 06 – The Gorge Amphitheater – George, WA*

Sept 07 – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater – Ridgefield, WA*

Sept 09 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, CA*

Sept 10 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA*

Sept 13 – Tucson Arena – Tucson, AZ*

Sept 14 – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA*

Sept 15 – Whale Rock Music & Arts Festival – Templeton, CA

Sept 17 – Kia Forum – Inglewood, CA*

Sept 18 – Kia Forum – Inglewood, CA*

Sept 20 – Kia Forum – Inglewood, CA*

Sept 22 – Isleta Amphitheater – Albuquerque, NM*

Sept 24 – Frost Bank Center – San Antonio, TX*

Sept 26 – Paycom Center – Oklahoma City, OK*

Sept 28 – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival – Franklin, TN

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We heart the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup.

Set to take place Sept. 20-21 at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, the annual Ryan Seacrest-hosted, multi-day musical extravaganza is bringing in some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop, rock, country, punk and R&B once again this year.

Huge headliners on this year’s bill include ’90s icon Gwen Stefani , hitmaker Hozier , unconventional pop star Doja Cat , country mainstay Thomas Rhett and throwback boy band New Kids On The Block .

They’ll be joined by Big Sean , Camila Cabello, Keith Urban , Paramore and The Black Crowes .

Victoria Monét and Shaboozey will be there, too.

Plus, a press release for the two-day fest teases “one-of-a-kind collaborations and surprise performances.”

If you want to see what that entails, tickets for the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival are available as soon as today.

Fans can purchase tickets for both festival dates on sites like Vivid Seats ; the official on-sale is Friday, June 7.

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A complete breakdown of all iHeart Radio Music Festival single-day pass dates and start times can be found below.

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As of now, only a few of this year’s headliners have been announced. Although we listed them earlier, you can see them again in a slightly more visually attractive medium here:

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Hozier announced new tour dates and Syracuse is on the list

S YRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Popular singer and songwriter, Hozier, will make his first appearance at the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview this May.

He will be performing at the amphitheater on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 8 p.m.

The announcement comes as part of his “Unreal Unearth Tour,” with special guest, Allison Russel.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, Nov. 17 at 12 p.m. through Live Nation.

Full name, Andrew Hozier-Byrne is known for his songs, “Take Me to Church,” “Work Song,” “Cherry Wine,” “Like Real People Do,” and more.

Hozier’s music can be described as folk, soul and blues. “Unreal Unearth” is his latest album release, that includes the single “Eat Your Young,” which has 114 million streams on Spotify, and rising.

The Irish musician recently teased an unreleased collaboration with Noah Kahan. The pair shared a snippet of Kahan’s song, “Northern Attitude,” which is set to drop Friday, Nov. 10.

Other tour stops nearby

• May 19 – Broadview Stage at SPAC , Saratoga Springs, NY
• June 4 and June 5 – Forest Hills Stadium , Forest Hills, NY
• June 27 – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts , Bethel NY

For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WSYR.

10 must-see concert tours this summer under $100

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• Published: May. 31, 2024, 3:19 p.m.

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With many big-named artists on tour this summer , finding the time and budget for all your favorites can be difficult. Nowadays, concert ticket prices in the triple digits are the norm, with some even reaching the thousands for more in-demand artists (*cough* Taylor Swift ).

When trying to score a seat at a sold-out show or get the best deals on ticket prices, third-party platforms like Vivid Seats , SeatGeek and StubHub can be your best friend for finding verified tickets if you know where to look.

Instead of scouring the internet for whose on-tour and where to find the cheapest tickets, keep reading to discover the top 10 must-see concert tours this summer under $100 for any and every music lover.

Ticket prices and availability are noted at the time of publishing and are subject to change.

Folk-pop artist Noah Kahan’s rise to fame has been swift and pervasive. When the “Stick Season” singer-songwriter announced his 2024 “We’ll Be Here Forever Tour,” many dates sold out within minutes.

With the tour beginning in April, Kahan is spending the rest of the summer making his way through North America before heading overseas. Some may say finding a ticket to see Kahan for under $100 is impossible, and while, for the most part, it is in fact a fool’s errand, there’s one date in particular where you’re in luck.

July 3, 2024 - Wheatland, CA - Toyota Amphitheatre ( Tickets starting at $83 )

Find the complete list of Kahan’s tour dates here .

Chris Stapleton

When the multi-award-winning Chris Stapleton isn’t making hit country albums like “Traveller” (2015) and his latest release “Higher” (2023), he’s collaborating with artists across all genres, from Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa to Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wade.

This summer, Stapleton embarked on his “All-American Road Show” tour and sold out most of his dates. However, you can still find tickets for under $100 on Vivid Seats for select dates:

June 8, 2024 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium ( Tickets starting at $76 )

June 13, 2024 - Ridgedale, MO - Thunder Ridge Natures Arena ( Tickets starting at $37 )

June 15, 2024 - Arlington, TX - Globe Life Field( Tickets starting at $40 )

July 11, 2024 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater ( Tickets starting at $96 )

July 12, 2024 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake ( Tickets starting at $90 )

July 19, 2024 - Columbus, OH - Value City Arena at Schottenstein Center ( Tickets starting at $81 )

August 22, 2024 - North Little Rock, AR - Simmons Bank Arena ( Tickets starting at $53 )

August 24, 2024 - Houston, TX - Minute Maid Park ( Tickets starting at $23 )

Find the complete list of Stapleton’s tour dates here .

One of the hottest new artists in the country music scene, Jelly Roll achieved mainstream success after the 2021 release of his CMT Award-winning single “Son of a Sinner.” The Tennessee native is known for his unique sound, blending country with rap and hip-hop.

Jelly Roll’s 2024 “Beautifully Broken Tour” will kick off toward the end of summer on August 27 in Salt Lake City, UT, and conclude on October 27 in Charlotte, NC.

Luckily, fans can find tickets under $100 for most of Jelly Roll’s tour dates on Vivid Seats . Below, you’ll find the three dates with the cheapest tickets:

September 3, 2024 - San Jose, CA - SAP Center ( Tickets starting at $44 )

September 21, 2024 - Washington, DC - Capital One Arena ( Tickets starting at $47 )

October 1, 2024 - University Park, PA - Bryce Jordan Center ( Tickets starting at $44 )

Find the complete list of Jelly Roll’s tour dates here .

Melanie Martinez

Alt-pop sensation Melanie Martinez is known for her experimental and conceptual albums “Cry Baby” (2015), “K-12″ (2019) and “Portals” (2023).

Currently, Martinez’s 2024 tour encompassing all three albums, “The Trilogy Tour,” is in full swing and will continue until August 4 before the singer begins the European leg of her tour in September.

Tickets under $100 for select dates:

June 5, 2024 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden ( Tickets starting at $83 )

June 6, 2024 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden ( Tickets starting at $80 )

June 9, 2024 - Toronto, ON, CA - Scotiabank Arena ( Tickets starting at $79 )

June 19, 2024 - Sunrise, FL - Amerant Bank Arena ( Tickets starting at $69 )

July 31, 2024 - Hershey, PA - Giant Center ( Tickets starting at $95 )

Find the complete list of Martinez’s tour dates here .

Kenny Chesney

Country superstar Kenny Chesney is famous for his live performances, where the energy and vibes are always high. His 2024 “Sun Goes Down Tour” is no different, where he’ll be joined by special guests ACM Award-winner Megan Moroney and the Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band for select dates.

Hearing songs like “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems” and “Beer in Mexico” live may take the cake, but the cherry on top is the fact that tickets are under $100 for most dates on Vivid Seats , so be sure to grab them while the prices are still low.

Want to find the best deal? Listed below are the three tour dates with the cheapest tickets:

June 27, 2024 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater ( Tickets starting at $31 )

July 20, 2023 - Inglewood, CA - SoFi Stadium ( Tickets starting at $33 )

July 24, 2024 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre ( Tickets starting at $32 )

Find the complete list of Chesney’s tour dates here .

Foo Fighters

Legendary alt-rock band Foo Fighters are touring their latest studio album, “But Here We Are” (2023), across North America this summer, and fans have plenty of chances to see the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers live for under $100. Check out the dates below:

July 17, 2024 - New York, NY - Citi Field ( Tickets starting at $56 )

July 19, 2024 - New York, NY - Citi Field ( Tickets starting at $78 )

July 25, 2024 - Cincinnati, OH - Great American Ball Park ( Tickets starting at $63 )

July 28, 2024 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Field ( Tickets starting at $54 )

August 3, 2024 - Denver, CO - Empower Field at Mile High ( Tickets starting at $26 )

August 7, 2024 - San Diego, CA - PETCO Park ( Tickets starting at $36 )

August 13, 2024 - Concord, CA - Concord Pavilion ( Tickets starting at $69 )

August 18, 2024 - Seattle, WA - T-Mobile Park ( Tickets starting at $89 )

Find the complete list of the Foo Fighters tour dates here .

Hozier rose to prominence after his chart-topping single “Take Me Church” blessed all of our ears. Now, he’s the hottest name in the alt-folk scene, dropping hits like “Cherry Wine,” “Nina Cried Power” and “Too Sweet.”

Hozier kicked off his 2024 “Unreal Unearth Tour” in April and will continue to make his way across North America until September. Despite being nearly sold out, fans can still find tickets under $100 for many tour dates on Vivid Seats .

August 28, 2024 - Casper, WY - Ford Wyoming Center ( Tickets starting at $30 )

September 9, 2024 - Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center ( Tickets starting at $50 )

September 26, 2024 - Oklahoma City, OK - Paycom Center ( Tickets starting at $48 )

Find the complete list of Hozier’s tour dates here .

It’s safe to say, Navy veteran and Oklahoma native Zach Bryan is the “it-boy” of country music. His self-titled fourth album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, while track 11 on the album, “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves went on to win a Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

This summer, Bryan is on the road with his 2024 “Quittin’ Time Tour.”

He’ll be joined by various musical artists for select tour dates, including Mt. Joy, Sheryl Crow, Sierra Ferrell Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Turnpike Troubadours, The War And Treaty, The Middle East, Matt Maeson and Levi Turner.

June 3, 2023 - Los Angeles, CA - Crypto.com Arena ( Tickets starting at $81 )

June 4, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA - Crypto.com Arena ( Tickets starting at $81 )

June 14, 2024 - Denver, CO - Empower Field at Mile High ( Tickets starting at $95 )

June 23, 2024 - Columbus, OH - Ohio Stadium ( Tickets starting at $71 )

July 25, 2024 - New Orleans, LA - Caesars Superdome ( Tickets starting at $75 )

July 27, 2024 - Houston, TX - NRG Stadium ( Tickets starting at $95 )

August 10, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Mercedes-Benz Stadium ( Tickets starting at $76 )

August 11, 2024 - Atlanta, GA - Mercedes-Benz Stadium ( Tickets starting at $72 )

Find the complete list of Bryan’s tour dates here .

Megan Thee Stallion

Make the most of your “hot girl summer” by catching rap legend Megan Thee Stallion live on her none other than 2024 “Hot Girl Summer Tour.”

Megan will be joined by “Yeah Glo!” rapper GloRilla. The two recently released the remix to their single “Wanna Be” with Cardi B.

Hoping to witness the new single live along with dozens of other hits like “WAP,” “Cash Shit,” “Body” and “Savage”? You can find several tour dates with tickets for under $100 on Vivid Seats .

June 4, 2024 - Raleigh, NC - PNC Arena ( Tickets starting at $56 )

June 17, 2024 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena ( Tickets starting at $50 )

June 19, 2024 - Phoenix, AZ - Footprint Center ( Tickets starting at $57 )

Find the complete list of Megan Thee Stallion’s tour dates here .

After 48 years of rocking out to their hit songs like “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Hot Blooded” and “Feels Like the First Time,” legendary rock band Foreigner announced their farewell tour in 2022 with the 2023-2024 “Feels Like the Last Time Farewell Tour.”

If you missed out on their 2023 shows or want to get in the fun again for one last time, you’re in luck because Foreigner has added additional 2024 dates this summer and will be joined by co-headliner Styx.

Ticket prices are under $100 for most tour dates on Vivid Seats , but if you want to find the best deal, check out the three dates with the cheapest tickets below:

June 12, 2024 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center ( Tickets starting at $19 )

July 24, 2024- Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live ( Tickets starting at $22 )

July 30, 2024 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center ( Tickets starting at $28 )

Find the complete list of Foreigner & Styx’s tour dates here .

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Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar announces summer 2024 tour for their first album in 20 years

Keanu Reeves and his band Dogstar are going back on the road.

Following the group's first performance in 20 years last summer, Dogstar announced Tuesday that its members are embarking on the Summer Vacation Tour 2024 across North America.

"We can’t wait to see everyone! Thank you all for all the love and support," drummer Rob Mailhouse commented under the band's Instagram post. "We can feel it every time we take the stage. ❤️"

Dogstar, currently on tour in Europe, will be visiting 29 cities starting with the Indiana State Fair on Aug. 8. Their last show is Dana Point, California's Ohana Fest on Sept. 27.

The pre-sale begins Wednesday at noon local time; tickets can be found at dogstarofficial.com .

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Last October, Dogstar — which comprises Reeves, Mailhouse and guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose — came out with its first album in two decades, a 12-track record titled "Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees." It was released by their own label, Dillon Street Records and featured their single "Everything Turns Around."

The "John Wick" star, the alt-rock band's bassist, formed the band with Mailhouse and the group's original guitarist and lead singer Gregg Miller in 1991.

Before ending their 20-year hiatus with a performance at BottleRock Napa Valley music festival in northern California last May, Reeves told  Billboard  that being with Dogstar was "something I’ve always missed."

"I missed playing together, I missed writing together, I missed doing shows together," he said. "We came to a spot where we weren’t playing anymore, and I missed it … Once we started to play, and it felt good, and really positive and creative, that’s when it was like, 'OK, let’s make this happen.'"

"I think all three of us just said, ‘Well, if we’re going to do this, let’s make a record,'" Reeves said. Domrose added, "We just knew that there was ‘X’ amount of time, and we needed to make the most of it. We just locked on as wanting to make this record, and it happened pretty quickly."

At the Napa Valley festival, the band played tracks from the previous albums, 1996’s "Our Little Visionary" and 2000’s "Happy Ending," as well as several songs from their yet-unreleased "Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees."

Three months later, Dogstar went on to tour two dozen cities in North America and Japan in its Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees Tour.

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At 70, Cyndi Lauper Has Nothing Left to Prove

She’s plotting a farewell tour. She’s starring in a documentary about her life. And she could only ever be herself.

At 70, Cyndi Lauper is charging back to action with a road show and “Let the Canary Sing,” a film that tells her life story. Credit... Thea Traff for The New York Times

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By Amanda Hess

• June 4, 2024

One Friday afternoon in May, Cyndi Lauper stepped out of her Upper West Side apartment building and into the streets of New York City. She wore glitter-encrusted glasses, sneakers with rainbow soles and a stack of beaded bracelets on each arm. A rice-paper parasol swung in her hand. As she walked, she examined the crowds and remarked when glints of interest caught her eye.

“Of course, up here it’s fashion hell,” she allowed of her tony neighborhood. And yet, every few blocks she rubbernecked at another woman’s look, her famous New Yawk accent lifting and tumbling in pleasure at what she saw:

“Look at these dames, how cute are they?”

“Did you love those pants? I kind of loved those pants.”

“Look at this lady,” she said, stepping off the curb and clocking a passerby. The woman moved nimbly, tomato-red streak in her silver hair, body draped in shades of fuchsia and cherry as she pushed the gleaming metal frame of a walker. “Fabulous,” Lauper exclaimed. “Come on!”

At 70, the pop icon and social justice activist isn’t just charging back into the streets. On Monday, Lauper announced her final tour, the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, which will have her headlining arenas across North America from late October to early December. And “Let the Canary Sing,” a documentary about her life and career that premiered at the Tribeca Festival last year, is streaming on Paramount+.

Lauper has not staged a major tour — “a proper tour, that’s mine” — in over a decade. But now her window of opportunity is closing, so she’s leaping through it. “I don’t think I can perform the way I want to in a couple of years,” she said. “I want to be strong.”

And until recently, when she finally agreed to sit for the director Alison Ellwood, she could not envision committing her life story to film. “I wasn’t going to do a documentary because I’m not dead,” she said. More to the point, she did not feel particularly misunderstood. From the moment she danced across the city in the 1983 video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” she felt that she had articulated precisely what she wanted to say.

“Everything I wanted them to understand was in that video,” she said of her fans. She has a lot of people who get her: The clip has been viewed on YouTube more than one billion times. Forty years later, she holds it up as a thesis, the key to decoding her artistic perspective and understanding everything that followed. After all, “You never have to wonder where a New Yorker stands,” she said. “They’ll tell you, straight up.”

CYNDI LAUPER, BORN in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, bopped around the house to the Beatles’ songs, her older sister, Elen, singing McCartney’s parts and Lauper taking Lennon’s. It was her earliest lesson in harmony and song structure. But when she left home at 17, it was with a copy of Yoko Ono’s feminist conceptual art book “Grapefruit” in her hands.

Ono taught her that “you can create art in your head, and then you can view things differently,” Lauper told me. This attitude served her well as she tried (and often failed) to work as a painter, a shoe saleswoman, a racetrack hot walker, an IHOP waitress, a gal Friday at Simon & Schuster and the singer in a cover band.

Singing other people’s music in Long Island clubs and dive bars, Lauper struggled to find her place. She tried to channel Janis Joplin, but “I was stuck inside her body, and she didn’t like it, and I didn’t like it,” she said. She tried to sound like Gene Pitney, and “it came out sounding like Ethel Merman.” After a while, “You start to feel that you’re just not good enough.”

But really, she was just no good at being anyone other than Cyndi Lauper. When she started writing and arranging songs for herself, “I told the stories that I knew about the women that I knew,” she said. “About my mom, my aunt, my grandmother.” They guided her back to the rhythms of her own life, even if, in the beginning, few were interested in listening. “My first concert was to 14 people,” she said, “and I did the encore, OK?”

The documentary’s title is a line ripped from a real-life courtroom drama: Early on, Lauper’s career got entangled in the ambitions of an ex-manager, who sued her to retain control of her music. She sank into bankruptcy trying to escape him. When the judge sided with Lauper, he banged the gavel and said: “Let the canary sing.”

Once freed, Lauper connected with Robert Hazard, who had written a track called “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” He’d arranged it as a rock song from a man’s perspective — the girls were the ones he imagined sleeping with — and Lauper had some edits. She recast it as a gleeful public announcement, calling out a sexist double standard (“Oh mama dear, we’re not the fortunate ones”) while claiming liberation from the workplace, the home and the patriarchy. And she rearranged the notes, pitching her voice so high that it could not be ignored. “I sang that high because I was trumpeting an idea,” she said.

And then there was the video. “That video was what you call ‘inclusive’ nowadays, and that was the most important thing,” Lauper said. In addition to the Italian American pro wrestler Lou Albano, Lauper featured her mother, her lawyer, her manager, a crop of record-company secretaries, and a racially diverse group of singers and dancers. “I was sick of the segregation” of the music industry, she said. “It’s people together that create a style.”

MTV was still in its infancy in 1983, and it was fortuitous that Lauper’s debut album, “She’s So Unusual,” came out just as the network was ascending. She saw her public image as a visual art form. Her makeup artist was a painter, and her stylist was a vintage buyer.

“People sometimes get the wrong idea that it was very thrown together,” Laura Wills, the founder of the vintage shop Screaming Mimi’s, said of the singer’s style. “People just didn’t look like that.” In the early ’80s, Lauper worked for Wills, often bartering her labor for clothes. When her career took off, Wills started styling her, and the pair often constructed Lauper’s outfits as if sliding chips across a poker table, as in, “I’ll see your polka-dot socks and striped capris, and I’ll raise you a plaid top,” Wills said. “I’ll see your polka-dot socks, striped capris and plaid top, and I’ll raise you a paisley hat.”

Lauper seemed to shoot to fame as a fully formed feminist icon. She refused to tell interviewers her age (“I’m not a car,” she said), and she insisted that they recognize the politics behind her aesthetic choices. “I wore the corset to undo the power of the binding of women,” she told the press. She graced the cover of Ms. Magazine and recorded the 1986 song “True Colors,” which resonated with her in the wake of a friend’s death from AIDS.

“I know that I probably lost business because I talked about AIDS a lot,” she said, but figured “I ought to stand up like any good Italian and stick up for my family, you know?” In 2008, she founded True Colors United to help combat homelessness among L.G.B.T.Q. youth. And in 2022, she created the Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights fund to support abortion access and other reproductive justice movements.

In 1985, Lauper won the best new artist Grammy after the release of “She’s So Unusual.” The album — and songs like “Time After Time” and “All Through the Night” — broke records. But something odd was happening. She looked around and saw versions of herself everywhere. “When I first became famous, I felt like the whole world just kind of went” — here Lauper made a sharp slurping noise — “and sucked everything up. The jewelry, the color, the corsets on the outside, the whole thing. And then used it. Spit it out. Next!”

Lauper was accused of being a manufactured package. “No, it was me. That’s how I dressed. That’s how I looked. That was my community,” she said. “I have a brain.”

When Lauper got a call that a movie studio was adapting her big hit into a movie, she balked at its fluffy premise. “I guess it was about a couple of girls … trying to have fun,” she said. (Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt starred.) Lauper refused permission to use her song, so it featured Hazard’s version with other vocalists instead. “For me, it sucked,” she said. “You took my style. And it had nothing to do with me at all.”

In the ’80s, Lauper was compared so closely to other female musicians that it was implied there was not space for all of them. She was pitted against other women — mainly Madonna, who released her debut album the same year. On chat shows and in schoolyards (and even on the charity single “We Are the World” ), celebrities and fans were asked to choose one. “It was like apples and oranges,” Lauper told me. Or as she put it in Newsweek in 1985: “She’s just doing her thing. My thing happens to be different.” It was a shame, Lauper said: “I would have liked to have a friend.”

Though she fought her battles mainly alone, Lauper has inspired generations of women. Among her acolytes are Nicki Minaj, who in April brought her onstage in Brooklyn to duet on the song that samples her, “Pink Friday Girls.” When an interviewer asked the 26-year-old singer-songwriter Chappell Roan, “How does it feel to be called the Gen-Z Cyndi Lauper?” she replied, “I think Cyndi Lauper is the Gen-Z Cyndi Lauper.”

Lauper made 11 more albums after her debut — among them a blues record, a country record and a dance record. In the early 2000s, she walked over to Broadway, starring in “The Threepenny Opera” and writing the music and lyrics to the musical “Kinky Boots” after Harvey Fierstein, who wrote the book, tapped her for the gig. “There’s a small group of people I consider my children; she’s one of my daughters,” the actor and writer, who turns 72 this week, said. Fierstein told me that he had suspected Lauper’s talents were underused in rock, and he wanted to see what it was like for her to write a song that she would never sing herself.

“My favorite was a recording she made on her phone, in the beauty parlor, with her head in the dryer,” he said. (Lauper was often multitasking.) Her autoharp competed with the salon noise. “It’s really hard to sell a $10 million production on a recording of an autoharp song with a dryer background,” he said. “But that’s what we did.” Lauper won the Tony for best score, the first woman to win alone.

In an industry that requires the rapacious pursuit of the new and the cynical extraction of identity, Lauper was never willing to abandon herself. She had forged the revolutionary style, sang the totemic song. She inspired millions, billions, of fans to be themselves. Why should she have to change who she was?

AS LAUPER AND I traversed the Upper West Side, we ducked into an exhibition about the abstract artist Sonia Delaunay, passed the original Screaming Mimi’s location (now a dry cleaners), and wound back to her apartment, where she invited me up.

Past the doorman, past a cheetah-print doormat and a cheetah-print curtain, two little pugs named Lulu and Ping awaited Lauper’s return. She disappeared to arrange a plate of ginger cookies, the same kind Jackson Browne always sent her on Christmas, while her husband, the actor David Thornton, told me about their meet-cute on the set of the 1991 film “Off and Running.” She played a fake mermaid, he played a murderer. Off the set, he was struck instantly by her winning sense of humor.

“She’s the Rodney Dangerfield of rock ’n’ roll,” he said. As in, she is so funny that she does not always receive the respect she deserves. “I don’t think anybody has any idea how hard she works,” he said.

To prepare for the tour, she blasts the stereo in her apartment and dances and sings, vexing the pugs. She works with a vocal coach four days a week. And she trains like it’s a sport. Her weekly exercise routine includes physical therapy, weights, stretching, physical therapy, weights, yoga, more weights, yoga, aerobics, physical therapy, weights again. She’s been chomping on enormous salads that make her feel like a horse.

“But when you’re a singer, you have to be an athlete,” she said. “You can’t [expletive] around. When you’re 20, yeah. But when you get older? No.”

As the tour approaches, she’s been daydreaming about “all the crazy stuff I tried that didn’t work” in the long arc of her career. The butterfly-winged black dress that she was meant to reveal as she stepped out of a cocoon. The bit where she was supposed to change behind a backlit screen like an old cartoon character. A kind of mechanical skirt that resembled a globe, slowly spinning her around as she sang.

She’s not exactly sure what she’ll pull off this time. Whatever changes, one thing remains the same: “Who the hell I am is who the hell I am.”

Amanda Hess is a critic at large for the Culture section of The Times, covering the intersection of internet and pop culture. More about Amanda Hess

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Local fan caddies two holes for C.T. Pan at RBC Canadian Open

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ANCASTER, Ontario – Paul Emerson doesn’t fancy himself a good golfer, but he’s a scratch “golf nut.” He attended Sunday’s final round as the RBC Canadian Open as a spectator, with an unexpected inside-the-ropes experience early in the day – two holes as a caddie.

Emerson, who hails from nearby Aurora, Ontario, was traversing the par-4 third hole at Hamilton Golf & Country Club when he realized that C.T. Pan’s caddie, Mike “Fluff” Cowan, had been injured and was unable to continue caddying. Pan’s playing partner Shane Lowry was carrying his own bag, and Lowry’s caddie Darren Reynolds was carrying Pan’s bag.

As Pan was walking Cowan over to a medic on the side of the fairway, Emerson asked Pan if he could lend a hand.

Fan steps up to caddie for C.T. Pan after Fluff’s injury at RBC Canadian Open

“I helped Fluff get the bib off, threw it on and started walking up the hole,” Emerson said.

Pan was grateful for the support, and Emerson took the bag. He looped through the fifth fairway before a member of the caddie services team, Michael Campbell, stepped in. Campbell was replaced by Al Riddell, Paul Barjon’s caddie, on the 10th tee.

Cowan was treated for injuries suffered after tripping and falling on the third fairway.

Emerson had never previously caddied in a professional event; he once looped for a friend in a pro-am at the LPGA’s CPKC Women’s Open. This was a new type of experience though – he told Pan on the fourth hole that he was willing to chat as much or as little as he would like; Pan noted that he is not particularly chatty.

Pan began Sunday’s final round in a tie for 36th at 2-under; he turned in 1-under 34. As for the holes with Emerson on the bag? Birdie on No. 3, bogey on No. 4.

Kevin Prise is an associate editor for the PGA TOUR. He is on a lifelong quest to break 80 on a course that exceeds 6,000 yards and to see the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl. Follow Kevin Prise on Twitter .