Shakira Announces Fresno Stadium Concert For Aug. 7, Adds Another SoFi Stadium Show

In what could be the biggest concert to ever take place in Fresno, California, Shakira has announced an Aug. 7 tour stop at Valley Children’s Stadium, home of the Fresno State Bulldogs football team, with presale tickets going on sale Monday and the general onsale beginning 10 a.m. Pacific June 25.

The late addition to the “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour,” a Thursday night stop, is the first concert ever for Valley Children’s Stadium, which opened in 1980 as Bulldog Stadium across the street from California State University, Fresno.  

Listed at 40,000 capacity, there should be ample space for Shakira’s massive production, which includes an extended catwalk taking her up close and personal with the audience on field level.

The Fresno State Bulldogs, the pride of the San Joaquin Valley sports programs, have remained a strong draw, with more than 40,000 members of the Red Wave in attendance for each home game in the 2024 season. 

Shakira has not played Fresno before. 

The Thursday-night show date follows a rescheduled Aug. 4 stop at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles, and comes just before Shakira heads back down to Mexico, where she has a multi-city run of dates that includes another four dates at Estadio GNP Seguros, where she already played seven shows in March, a run that grossed $46.6 million on just shy of 400,000 tickets sold.

In addition to the Fresno show, the Colombian megastar announced a second night at SoFi Stadium due to overwhelming demand. Tickets for the newly added Aug. 5 show as well as the Fresno stadium concert go on sale via presales June 23, followed by the general onsale beginning June 25 at 10 a.m. PT at LiveNation.com.

The announcement comes after Shakira was forced to cancel a May 29 show at Fenway Park in Boston and May 31 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., due to production issues, specifically related to the stage. A similar situation followed June 13 with her San Antonio concert at the Alamodome in San Antonio postponed due to structural issues just hours before showtime. That show is now scheduled for July 5.

While the central California city of Fresno is an active concert market with a population of more than 500,000 and various venues including the 16,000-capacity Save Mart Center basketball arena, multiple theater venues and minor league baseball Chukchansi Park with more than 10,000 seats, Fresno has likely never had a stadium concert with as many available tickets as the Shakira show. If she could sell into the 20,000-capacity range, it would almost surely be the city’s largest single-night, standalone concert ever, at least reported to Pollstar. 

Largest all-time Fresno grosses submitted to Pollstar include Madonna’s two-night stand at the Save Mart Center in 2006, which sold 20,154 combined tickets and grossed $3.75 million, and four shows of Garth Brooks in 2016, where he sold a combined 51,743 tickets and grossed $3.4 million. More recently, Mexican star Peso Pluma last summer grossed just under $3 million on 14,333 tickets sold at the arena, which is located on the campus of Fresno State. 

Recent numbers suggest the feat is more than doable. Shakira’s current tour includes a wide range of capacities per venue, however, with single-night arena stops in markets like Detroit, Montreal, Atlanta and Toronto selling between 11,000 and 14,000 tickets, although completely sold out. Other single-night engagements, however, include blockbusters well into 45,000 and beyond, such as Hard Rock Stadium in Miami (two nights at 42,920 capacity), Camping World Stadium in Orlando (45,182, one night), Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte (47,406) and MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which reported two sold-out nights at 49,938 tickets. 

Shakira is booked by WME and managed by Nadine Eliya, CEO of Versatile Creative, who was featured on the cover of Pollstar‘s Impact 50 issue.