Urban adds second tour leg
Shows in Austin, Albuquerque, N.M. and at Denver's iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater were added to the newly dubbed "Light The Fuse Tour 2013" first leg.
Tickets for "Light The Fuse Tour 2013," with Little Big Town and special guest Dustin Lynch, will go on sale nationally beginning on Friday, April 5.
The "Light The Fuse Tour 2013" first leg kicks off on July 18 in Cincinnati and concludes on Oct. 5 after 28 outdoor shows highlighted by Urban's first performance at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl.
The concerts will feature new music from Urban, expected out this spring, as well as an all-new production. For all official Kei Urban tour news and ticket information go to www.keithurban.net/tour.
Second leg tour dates are:
Oct. 18 Omaha, NE CenturyLink Center
Oct. 19 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena
Oct. 20 Springfield, MO JQH Arena
Oct. 25 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Oct. 26 Bossier City, LA CenturyLink Center
Oct. 27 Lafayette, LA Cajundome
Nov. 8 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Nov. 9 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
Nov. 10 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
Nov. 14 Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena
Nov. 1 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Nov. 16 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Nov. 22 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
Nov. 24 Toledo, OH Huntington Center
Dec. 6 Greenville, SC Bi-Lo Center
Dec. 7 Charleston, WV Charleston Civic Center
Dec. 8 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
Previously announced dates are:
July 18 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
July 19 Twin Lakes, WI Country Thunder
July 20 Monticello, IA Great Jones County Fair
July 25 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 26 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre
July 27 Atlanta, GA Verizon Amphitheatre
Aug. 4 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Center
Aug. 8 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aug. 9 Canandaigua, NY CMAC
Aug. 10 Boston, MA Comcast Center
Aug. 15 Austin, TX Austin360 Amphitheater
Aug. 16 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Aug. 17 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
Aug. 22 Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
Aug. 23 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Aug. 24 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
Aug. 28 Albuquerque, NM Sandia Casino Amphitheater
Aug. 30 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
Sept. 12 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
Sept. 13 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
Sept. 14 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
Sept. 21 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sept. 22 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sept. 27 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Sept. 28 San Diego, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sept. 29 Phoenix, AZ Desert Sky Pavilion
Oct. 4 Tampa, Florida Live Nation Amphitheatre Tampa
Oct. 5 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
* Urban and Little Big Town only
More news for Keith Urban
- 06/28/24: Urban goes "High"
- 05/17/24: Urban gets "Messed Up" on The Voice
- 05/06/24: Urben gets HIGH in Vegas
- 05/03/24: Urban looks to "GO HOME W U"
- 02/29/24: Urban releases "Messed Up As Me" on Friday
- 09/07/23: Urban, Gill, Bentley, Ballerini play All for the Hall
- 08/03/23: Urban, Brooks, Murphy to join Nashville Songwriters Hall
- 11/18/22: Urban drops "Street Called Main" video
CD reviews for Keith Urban
It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...
It's telling how two songs on Keith Urban's "Graffiti U" album chug along to a reggae beat because pop rhythms and non-country elements are the obvious inspirations for this collection. Opener "Coming Home" may borrow (steal?) a guitar riff from Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," but this is where that country road begins and ends.
Urban follows "Coming Home" with "Never Comin' Down," which is introduced with a funky bass line ...
Even though Keith Urban's single, "Wasted Time," borrows more than a little sonic sensibility from electronic music, there's still an upfront banjo solo. And this is how it's always been with Urban. He may play the part of the guitar hero at times, and even revealed his eclectic musical knowledge as a judge on American Idol, but Urban will always be a country boy at heart. And boyish good looks and talent have taken this country boy far, too.
The wonderfully titled ...
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