Tickets for Kid Rock’s 35-date summer tour are set to go on sale Feb. 24, the same day his new album, First Kiss, hits iTunes and stores nationwide. The tour will be promoted by Live Nation, which has an office in Novi.
The “$20 Best Night Ever” tour, featuring special guest Foreigner, will kick off June 24 in Hartford, Conn., with six stops at Clarkston’s DTE Energy Music Theater on Aug. 7-8, 11-12, and 14-15.
Tickets from the second row to the lawn will be $20, with reduced parking and service fees keeping prices at or below $30. The first row of seats for every show will be held back and given as free upgrades for lucky fans, say event officials.
Kid Rock Fan Club members will be able to purchase tickets beginning Thursday, and fans who pre-order the First Kiss album through KidRock.com will be eligible for a special pre-sale beginning on Friday. In addition, fans can purchase $20 all-in tickets (including parking, at participating Wal-Mart stores and at venue box offices.
And in a first for the artist, Kid Rock is going experiment with a new technology called “Twitter” on Thursday, when he takes over the iTunes Twitter handle at 5 p.m. (EST) to answer fans’ questions.
IN RELATED NEWS, Kid Rock will perform at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. The performance will air at 12:15 p.m. on FOX. He also will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Feb. 23, The Today Show on Feb. 24, followed by a talk with Howard Stern on Feb. 25.
The summer tour schedule includes:
June 24 | Hartford, Conn. | The Xfinity Theatre |
June 25 | Mansfield, Mass. | Xfinity Center |
June 27 | Scranton, Pa. | The Pavilion at Montage Mountain |
June 28 | Burgettstown, Pa. | First Niagara Pavilion |
June 30 | Holmdel, N.J. | PNC Bank Arts Center |
July 2 | Saratoga Springs, N.Y. | Saratoga Performing Arts Center |
July 3 | Bethel, N.Y. | Bethel Woods Center for the Arts |
July 7 | Camden, N.J. | Susquehanna Bank Center |
July 8 | Bristow, Va. | Jiffy Lube Live |
July 10 | Virginia Beach, Va. | Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach |
July 11 | Raleigh, N.C. | Walnut Creek Amphitheatre |
July 14 | Charlotte, N.C. | PNC Music Pavilion |
July 16 | West Palm Beach, Fla. | Coral Sky Amphitheatre |
July 18 | Tampa, Fla. | MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre |
July 19 | Atlanta, Ga. | Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood |
July 22 | Woodlands, Texas | Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion |
July 23 | Dallas, Texas | Gexa Energy Pavilion |
July 25 | Maryland Heights, Mo. | Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre |
July 26 | Tinley Park, Ill. | First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre |
July 30 | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio | Blossom Music Center |
Aug. 1 | Noblesville, Ind. | Klipsch Music Center |
Aug. 2 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Riverbend Music Center |
Aug. 4 | Darien, N.Y. | Darien Lake Performing Arts Center |
Aug. 7 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 8 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 11 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 12 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 14 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 15 | Clarkston | DTE Energy Music Theater |
Aug. 26 | Phoenix, Ariz. | Ak-Chin Pavilion |
Aug. 27 | Irvine, Calif. | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater |
Aug. 29 | San Bernadino, Calif. | San Manuel Amphitheater |
Aug. 30 | Mountain View, Calif. | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
Sept. 2 | Marysville, Calif. | Sleep Train Amphitheatre |
Sept. 4 | Ridgefield, Wash. | Amphitheater Northwest |
Sept. 5 | Auburn, Wash. | White River Amphitheatre |
