Additions: Sting, Alabama Shakes, Garth Brooks, Tedeshi Trucks Band

Sting adds two new dates to his “57th & 9th” tour … Alabama Shakes takes on four headline shows on the East Coast … Garth Brooks hits Billings, Mont. … Tedeschi Trucks Band announces three nights in Texas.

Sting is trotting North America this year to support his latest album, and has tacked two more stops onto his routing.

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Le Bataclan, Paris, France

The new shows are at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass., Aug, 29 and Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, N.Y., on Aug. 30.  There are various presales for the shows ongoing now. The general onsale for Saratoga is available April 28 and  Lenox is available May 1.

The gigs will feature content from Sting’s latest LP, 57th & 9th, which, according to Rolling Stone, was named after the New York intersection he had to cross every day to get to the studio the LP was recorded in.

Sting’s next performance is in Santiago, Chile, on May 2. He continues throughout Latin America in May and then heads to Asia and Europe in June. 

Check out Sting’s full plan on his Pollstar artist page.

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Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes does it with feeling during the Music Midtown Festival in Piedmont Park in Atlanta Sept. 17.

East Coast rock fans can rejoice because Alabama Shakes is playing four shows in the region this August.

The shows are in the following locations:

Aug. 1 – Albany, N.Y., Palace Theatre

Aug. 2 – Shelburne, Vt., The Green At Shelburne Museum

Aug. 4 – Boston, Mass., Blue Hills Bank Pavilion    

Aug. 5 – Portland, Maine, Thompson’s Point

There is a presale already ongoing and the general onsale begins April 28.

Prior to that, the band’s routing is festival appearances through the spring and summer, and with the exception of a headline show booked tomorrow in Shreveport, La.

There is more about the Shakes on its artist page.

Courtesy Honda Center – Garth Brooks
Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.

The Garth Brooks touring machine rolls on, and the next stop is Billings, Mont.

There is little doubt this is the same song and dance we are used to from Garth’s tour announcements. He has announced one gig for the Rimrock Auto Arena At MetraPark on June 10, but he will likely add more nights once that show sells out.

You can get tickets to the gig on May 5 at 10 a.m. MST.

The show, as always, will feature Trisha Yearwood, and is now presented by Amazon Music Unlimited.

Garth has shows in Champaign, Ill., this weekend and plays Kansas City, Mo., for a few weeks after that.

Check out Garth’s artist page for more on the superstar.

Rich Fury / Invision / AP – Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of Teeschi Trucks Band
“Icon: The Life and Legacy of B.B. King,” Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Tedeschi Trucks Band will be playing a brief run of Texas shows with Hard Working Americans this September.

The jaunt will be through Houston, Dallas and Austin Sept. 21-23. The presale is on now and the general onsale begins April 28.

The band announced several months ago that it was reviving its “Wheels Of Soul” tour this July, with The Wood Brothers and Rimrock Auto Arena At MetraPark coming along for the ride.

You can get the full schedule for TTB on its artist page.