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Kid Rock Keeping Prices Low
Remember Kid Rock’s 2014 “$20 Best Night Ever” tour where the Detroit rocker kept tickets at affordable prices? Guess what? He’s doing it again. This time with Foreigner.
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Minnesota State Fair Grandstand, Saint Paul, Minn.
In an effort to combat scalpers, Rock is taking the seats ranging from the second row to the lawn and selling them for $20. With the deal including reduced parking and service fees, the final price will be $30 or under.
But that’s not all, folks.
$20 all-in tickets will be offered at participating Walmarts and at venue box offices. Fans buying these tickets will receive coupons giving them $2 off the purchase of Rock’s new album, First Kiss.
To fight off the scalpers, promoter Live Nation will take 1,000 tickets from each show and sell them via the company’s Platinum ticketing program.
And those front row seats? Those will be dispersed among the fans as instant upgrades. The shows will also include $20 special food packages, $4 draught beers and special $20 T-shirts.
Arriving in stores Feb. 24, First Kiss is Rock’s first release on Top Dog/Warner Bros. Records. Rock will debut the album live when he performs at the Daytona 500 Feb. 22. He will also make the media rounds, appearing on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” Feb. 23; NBC’s “Today Show” Feb. 24 and on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show Feb. 25. For the first time in his life Rock will tackle tweeting when he takes over the iTunes Twitter handle at 5 p.m. Feb. 19 EST.
Available for pre-order, First Kiss is streaming now on iTunes Radio.
Kid Rock’s summer rumble across the land includes not one, not two but six nights in his home territory when he plays the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Mich. Here’s the schedule:
June 24 – Hartford, Conn., Xfinity Theatre
June 25 – Mansfield, Mass., Xfinity Center
June 27 – Moosic, Pa., 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., Cruzan Amphitheatre
July 18 – Tampa, Fla., MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 19 – Atlanta, Ga., Aaron’s Amphitheatre At Lakewood
July 22 – The Woodlands, Texas, The 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 Center, N.Y., Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Aug. 7-8 – Clarkston, Mich., DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug. 11-12 – Clarkston, Mich., DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug. 14-15 – Clarkston, Mich., DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug. 26 – Phoenix, Ariz., Ak-Chin Pavilion
Aug. 27 – Irvine, Calif., Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Aug. 29 – San Bernardino, Calif., San Manuel Amphitheater
Aug. 30 – Mountain View, Calif., Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sept. 2 – Wheatland, Calif., Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sept. 4 – Ridgefield, Wash., Amphitheater Northwest
Sept. 5 – Auburn, Wash., White River Amphitheatre