Katy Perry Postpones Early Tour Stops

Bad news for Katy Perry fans on the East Coast: Seven shows at the beginning of the tour have been postponed due to production delays. On the bright side though, she has announced her openers.

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Katy Perry does her thing during Wango Tango at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., May 13.

Perry’s Witness tour was originally scheduled to start Sept. 7 in Columbus, Ohio, but delays in her stage design meant she didn’t get enough time to rehearse properly. The new opener will be Sept. 19 in Montreal.

Cities getting their time with Perry pushed back include Buffalo, N.Y.; Philadelphia; Quebec City, Quebec; and a pair of shows at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

Noah Cyrus, Purity Ring, and Carly Rae Jepsen will be splitting the opening duties. Cyrus will take the shows from September to Nov. 1. Purity Ring will hold down November and December, and Carly Rae Jepsen will join Perry for the last month of the tour.

September through February is just the first leg of a mammoth routing that is already set to move through Europe and Australia in 2018. Her last booked show is exactly one year from yesterday, Aug. 16, 2018 in Sydney.

Perry played Air Canada Centre earlier this summer and has done a few other dates in 2017, but she hasn’t taken a massive tour since 2015. That year was a good one for Perry as she moved through Europe, Asia, Central America and South America filling arenas and stadiums to max capacity.

If you want to see all of Perry’s plans, check out her Pollstar artist page.