Kelsea Ballerini Extends Her ‘Live On Tour 2025’ Outing After Performing Sold-Out Madison Square Garden

Pollstar cover girl Kelsea Ballerini marked her sold-out, one night only Madison Square Garden concert Oct. 29, celebrating the release of her latest album, Patterns, by expanding her “Kelsea Ballerini Live On Tour” 2025 outing, her first as an arena headliner, to six additional cities.

Citing “overwhelming demand,” the four-time Grammy nominee and multiple Country Music Association Award winner has added shows at arenas in Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis, Missouri; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Greenville, South Carolina; and Charleston, North Carolina, bringing the total number of cities she’ll visit in 2025 so far to 36.

Ballerini’s journey to arena headlining has been long but deliberate. “It’s been a very slow, steady build for 10 years,” Ballerina tells Pollstar. “And I truly didn’t skip any steps. I opened in clubs and then theaters and then amphitheaters and then arenas. And then I went back and I headlined every single one of those. This is the stuff that I’ve always been really protective of, wanting to do it at the right time, but always really eager to do it and hoping that one day I could. So it feels like a massive bucket list mark off to do this.”

The Garden actually isn’t the country singer/songwriter’s first arena headline – that came last year on Nov. 2, 2023 at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“My first big arena show was last year in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown. That was how I chose to jump to arenas,” Ballerini says. “It was very important to me to go back home to do that. But with Madison Square Garden being the album release show, thematically and with the album, I talk a lot about New York City. Visually, we shot some of the videos there, so it’s very branded with the album.”

It may seem impossible that Ballerini only last year headlined her first arena. She’s been a major presence these last few years, not just in Nashville but around the globe, thanks to her many televised appearances and commercials, in addition to four previous albums, two EPs, and 14 singles.

Named one of Country Music Television’s “Next Women of Country” in 2014, Ballerini is now one of today’s most prominent country women, hosting the “CMA Festival: Country’s Night To Rock” TV special with Thomas Rhett from 2017-19, and since 2021 has hosted or co-hosted the CMT Music Awards, and will again in 2025.

Ballerini’s team is represented by CAA Co-Head of Global Touring Rick Roskin and managers Leslie Cohea, Jason Owen, Jake Basden and Daisy Seymour of Sandbox Entertainment.

KELSEA BALLERINI LIVE ON TOUR – 2025 TOUR DATES:

01/21 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena

01/23 – Chicago, IL – United Center

01/24 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center

01/25 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum

01/29 – Duluth, GA – Gas South Arena

01/31 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

02/01 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center

02/04 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

02/06 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center

02/07 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena

02/08 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena

02/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

02/13 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

02/14 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

02/15 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena

02/18 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center

02/20 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center

02/22 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena

02/23 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fla

02/26 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena

03/13 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

03/14- Spokane, WA – Spokane Arena

03/15 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

03/18 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center

03/21 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

03/22 – San Diego, CA – Pechanga Arena San Diego

03/25 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center

03/28 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena

03/29 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center

03/30 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

04/01 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center

04/03 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center

04/04 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center

04/05 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center

04/08 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness Arena

04/09 – Charleston, NC – North Charleston Coliseum