AA CONCERT TICKETS

Archive for May, 2009

Top New York Sport and Concert events according to online ticket reseller Stubhub.com. Two New York Mets and New York Yankees Subway Series in June dominate the list. Other hot events include the tickets for New York Yankees Old-Timer’s Day Game and the US Open Golf Final Round.

Top NY Area Events
6/13 Mets at Yankees
6/06 Rays at Yankees
7/19 Tigers at Yankees, Old-Timer’s Day
6/5 Rays at Yankees
6/12 Mets at Yankees
6/27 Yankees at Mets
6/26 Yankees at Mets
6/28 Yankees at Mets
6/18 Nationals at Yankees
6/21 US Open Golf Final Round

Nice video of Taylor Swift performing Love Story live in concert in Oregon.

Reunited jam band Phish is preparing its first full fledged concert tour which will begin May 31st at Fenway Park in Boston. Phish has also released its first single Time Turns Elastic which will be included on Phish’s upcoming CD.

Phish 2009 Tour Dates

May 2009
31 Boston, MA Fenway Park

June 2009
4, 5 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theatre at Jones Beach (on sale 4/18)
6 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center (on sale 4/17)
7 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
9 Asheville, NC Asheville Civic Center
12, 14 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
16 St Louis, MO Fox Theatre
18 Burgettstown, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
19 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
20, 21 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley

July 2009
30, 31 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre

August 2009
1, 2 Morrison, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
5 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
7, 8 George, WA The Gorge
11 Chicago, IL Toyota Park
13 Darien Lake, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
14 Hartford, CT Meadows Music Theater
15 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
16 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center

The 80th Major League Baseball All-Star Game remains Stubhub’s number one event for Tuesday, May 26, 2009.  Stubhub states that other hot tickets are the Mets and Rays visiting the New Yankees Stadium, the Manny-less Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins visiting Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, the George Strait concert at the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium, UFC 100 and Elton John and Billy Joel at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.

Top 10 Tickets
7/14 MLB All-Star Game, St. Louis
6/13 Mets at Yankees
6/6 George Strait at Cowboys New Stadium
6/14 Mets at Yankees
6/06 Rays at Yankees
7/11 UFC 100, Las Vegas
5/30 Dodgers at Cubs
6/13 Twins at Cubs
7/30 Elton John/Billy Joel at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
6/11 Yankees at Red Sox

Summer Concerts 2009

There are a plethora of concert tours coming to arenas and amphitheatres across the US and Canada in the Summer of 2009.  Hot tours include The Jonas Brothers, No Doubt, coldplay, the Phish Reunion tour, Taylor Swift solo and also with Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Beyonce, Kid Rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Legend, Jay-Z with Ciara, Green Day, Nickelback, Green Day, blink-182, Rascal Flatts, Bob Dylan, Boston rockers Aerosmith and Australian legends AC/DC.  Other Summer Concert tours of note include Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood, Jimmy Buffett, Demi Lovato, Depeche Mode, Creed, Fleetwood Mac, Tool, Wilco and Santana.

Hot concert festivals this summer include Lollapalooza, All Points West, Rothbury and Bonnaroo.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play at the Giants Stadium with three concerts planned for September 30th, October 2nd and October 3rd.  Giants Stadium is sheduled to be torn down after the 2009 NFL football season.  Springsteen announced news of the concerts at a concert at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 21.  Tickets will to go on sale to the general public on Ticketmaster.com beginning June 1, 2009.  Springsteen plans to sell general admission tickets only for the field of the stadium for all three concerts. Let’s hope fans of the band have more luck purchasing tickets to the Giants Stadiums Springsteen concerts than they had purchasing tickets to the Izod Center shows.

Reunited punk pop rockers Blink-182 have announced details of their upcoming summer concert tour.  This concert tour will be their first since breaking-up five years ago and will feature an amazing selection of special opening acts at various venues including Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Panic At The Disco, The All-American Rejects and Taking Back Sunday.  Blink has also announced that amphitheater shows will feature lawn tickets at the low price of $20.  The tour will begin in Las Vegas in July and tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning May 30th.

Blink-182 Concert Tour Dates

July
24 Las Vegas, NV The Joint
28 Vancouver, British Columbia General Motors Place
30 Calgary, Alberta Pengrowth Saddledome
31 Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place

August
1 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Credit Union Centre
2 Winnipeg, Manitoba MTS Centre
4 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater
6 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
7 Quebec City, Quebec Quebec Colisee Pepsi
8 Montreal, Quebec Bell Centre
12 Hershey, PA The Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Stadium
13 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
14 Burgettstown, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
15 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
16 Council Bluffs, IA Westfair Amphitheatre
18 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
20 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center
21 Darien Center, NY Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center
22 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
23 Toronto, Ontario The Molson Amphitheatre
25 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
27 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
28 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
29 Hartford, CT New England Dodge Music Center
30 Washington, DC TBD
31 Wantagh, NY Nikon Theater at Jones Beach

September
2 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
3 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis
4 Bonner Springs, KS Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone
6 Englewood, CO Fiddlers Green Amphitheater
7 Orem, UT David O. McKay Events Center
10 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
12 Wheatland, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
13 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
14 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
16 Chula Vista, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
17 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
19 Tempe, AZ Tempe Beach Park
21 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion
23 The Woodlands, TX The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
24 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
26 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
27 Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheater at State Fairgrounds
29 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood

October
1 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
2 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
3 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Events Center