ERIC CHURCH WILL LAUNCH
THE OUTSIDERS WORLD TOUR IN SEPTEMBER
Tour Includes Special Guest Dwight Yoakam
And Alternating Opening Acts: Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark, and Halestorm
In Saint Louis at Scottrade Center September 13
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (April 9, 2014) –Eric Church’s
The Outsiders World Tour will launch in North America on
September 11, 2014 with 31 arena dates being announced today. Tickets
for the tour, which beings in Bossier City, Louisiana, will go on sale
April 18 in select markets with additional information
made available on EricChurch.com. Members of the Church Choir will have
access to a pre-sale starting on April 15. Church selected
Dwight Yoakam as the special guest for the entire tour. Opening
the tour on different dates throughout the first leg will be rising
country music duo
Brothers Osborne, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Brandy Clark, or the hard rocking band
Halestorm.
Hailed as a top entertainer by
The New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN Magazine, and
more, Church will bring his rip-roaring attitude when he performs at
venues such as Madison Square Garden, Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland,
Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the Sprint Center in
Kansas City, the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Atlanta, Thompson-Boling
Arena in Knoxville, and FedExForum in Memphis, among others. Church will
also return to the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. where he
sold more than 15,000 tickets in 2012 as part
of his headlining arena tour, The Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour—which Pollstar named a Top Tour of 2012.
While
The Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour employed a succession of backdrops as the focus of the show, Church's
The Outsiders World Tour will use a much more high tech design and will offer fans a 360° view of the entertainer and his band.
On sale dates and ticket information for each market will be announced on EricChurch.com. The best seats on
The Outsiders World Tour will once again be paperless so fans get them instead of scalpers.
A
limited number of VIP tickets for each show will also be available for
purchase. Each VIP ticket includes a premium ticket in
the first 15 rows or in the general admission pit, an invitation to a
pre-show party at The Outsiders Joint, a two song acoustic pre-show
performance by Eric Church, a limited edition show poster, and a
dedicated VIP concert concierge.
Fans
have the chance to gain access to pre-sale tickets for each show by
becoming a Standard or Premium member of the Church Choir. Join the
Church Choir
by visiting http://smarturl.it/churchchoir.
Church’s current album,
The Outsiders, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and the
Billboard Country Albums Chart earlier this year, and his current
hit single “Give Me Back My Hometown,” is Top 5-and-rising. “Eric
Church is working on a level that few other country artists of his
generation can touch,” said Ken Tucker at
NPR Music in his review of the album, continuing, “Shrewd,
defiant, sly and funny, Eric Church has succeeded in what he set out to
do: He’s using the power he’s accrued from making hit records to make
exactly the kind of album he wants, heedless of industry
approval. And this is how good he is: Now he’ll go out and — through
the singles he’ll release, the touring he’ll do and the videos he’ll
make — probably turn this personal project into a big commercial deal.
The Outsiders deserves nothing less.”
The Outsiders is the follow-up to Church’s Platinum-certified
album Chief, (named the 2012 Album of the Year by both CMA and
ACM, and GRAMMY-nominated for Best Country Album) which featured five
Top 20 singles: “Homeboy” (certified Platinum for sales in excess of one
million singles); the Top 10 “Like Jesus Does”
and the Top 5 “Creepin’” (both certified Gold for sales in excess of
500,000 singles each); and two No. 1 hits “Drink in My Hand” (certified
Platinum) and “Springsteen” (certified Double Platinum for sales in
excess of two million singles). Church’s debut
album, Sinners Like Me (2006) and his sophomore album Carolina (2009) are both RIAA Gold-certified.
Carolina had three hit singles: the Top 10 “Hell on the Heart” as
well as Top 20 hit “Smoke A Little Smoke” and Top 10 smash “Love Your
Love The Most,” which were both certified Gold.
Sinners Like Me spawned three Top 20 singles: “How ‘Bout You,” “Two Pink Lines,” and “Guys Like Me.”
Dwight
Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, placing him in
an elite group of global superstars. Nearly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have
charted,
with 14 peaking in the Top 10, including the hits “Honky Tonk Man,”
“Please, Please Baby,” “Little Ways,” “I Sang Dixie,” “It Only Hurts
When I Cry,” and “Fast as You.” He is a 21-time nominated, 2-time GRAMMY
Award winner. In celebration of his latest critically
acclaimed album, 3 Pears, he received the Artist of the Year
award at the 2013 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony, the most
prestigious award offered by the organization. In 2014, Yoakam will
appear as a recurring guest star in multiple episodes
of the thrilling CBS series, “Under the Dome,” based on Stephen King’s
best-selling novel of the same name. For more information, visit
www.dwightyoakam.com.
For
John (guitar) and TJ (vocals/guitar) Osborne, getting into music was
unavoidable. Growing up in the water town of Deale, Maryland, their
close-nit-family
of seven spent most nights not in front of the television, but writing
and playing songs. In April 2011, Warner Chappell/King Pen Music offered
them a publishing deal. A year later, Capitol Records offered them a
record deal. The Brothers Osborne are currently
in the studio finishing their debut album, an album they describe as
“aggressive, bold and fragile at times.” Their current single is “Rum.”
For more information, visit
www.brothersosborne.com.
Brandy Clark’s debut album,
12 Stories, was released in October 2013 and has received tremendous critical acclaim. When reviewing
12 Stories, Randy Lewis of The Los Angeles Times wrote,
“This is the country debut of the year.” Clark was nominated for her
first GRAMMY Award earlier this year for Best Country Song for “Mama’s
Broken Heart,” which she co-wrote with Shane McAnally
and Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert took to No. 1. That song also
earned Clark her first CMA and ACM nominations, both for Song of the
Year. Clark as been on tour with Jennifer Nettles. For more information
visit
www.brandyclarkmusic.com.
Upon its release, The Strange Case Of…, the second album from Atlantic Records artist Halestorm, shot to the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s
Hard
Rock Albums chart. The first single, “Love Bites (So Do I),” marked the
first song by a female fronted group to top the active rock chart and
earned the band a GRAMMY award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.
The song was also the No. 1 song of 2012 on
SiriusXM’s Octane. The band’s second single “Freak Like Me” also hit
No. 1 on the Active Rock chart and their third single “Here’s To Us” saw
incredible chart success as well. Halestorm also released their second
covers EP last fall,
ReAniMate 2.0: The CoVeRs eP, which saw the band putting their
distinctive brand another eclectic collection of classic songs. In
addition to releasing her own clothing and accessory line this past
fall, “Scissor Happy,” frontwoman Lzzy Hale has also
garnered national media attention appearing on the cover of Revolver’s “Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock” issue twice. The band has also performed on
Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Halestorm is currently on a sold-out European tour and working on their third studio album. For more information, visit
www.HalestormRocks.com.
The
first leg of the tour will take place throughout Sept.-Dec. in the U.S.
and Canada and is exclusively promoted by Louis Messina of The Messina
Group/AEG
Live. The dates for the first leg of The Outsiders World Tour with special guest Dwight Yoakum
(#TheOutsidersLive) are as follows:
Sept. 11 | Bossier City, La. | CenturyLink Center*
Sept. 13 | St. Louis, Mo. | Scottrade Center*
Sept. 16 | Minneapolis, Minn. | Target Center*
Sept. 17 | Des Moines, Iowa | Wells Fargo Arena*
Sept. 18 | Omaha, Neb. | CenturyLink Center*
Sept. 25 | Louisville, Ky. | KFC Yum! Center*
Sept. 26 | Charleston, W.Va. | Charleston Civic Center*
Sept. 27 | Greensboro, N.C. | Greensboro Coliseum*
Oct. 9 | Grand Rapids, Mich. | Van Andel Arena*
Oct. 10 | Cleveland, Ohio | Quicken Loans Arena*
Oct. 11 | Pittsburgh, Pa. | Consol Energy Center*
Oct. 16 | Charlottesville, Va. | John Paul Jones Arena**
Oct. 17 | New York, N.Y. | Madison Square Garden**
Oct. 18 | Philadelphia, Pa. | Wells Fargo Center**
Oct. 23 | Manchester, N.H. | Verizon Wireless Arena**
Oct. 24 | Uncasville, Conn. | Mohegan Sun**
Oct. 25 | Uncasville, Conn. | Mohegan Sun**
Oct. 30 | Knoxville, Tenn. |Thompson-Boling Arena**
Oct. 31 | Memphis, Tenn.| FedExForum**
Nov. 1 | Tulsa, Okla. | BOK Center**
Nov. 13 | London, Ont. | Budweiser Gardens**
Nov. 14 | Hamilton, Ont. | FirstOntario Centre**
Nov. 15 | Ottawa, Ont. | Canadian Tire Centre**
Nov. 20 | Green Bay, Wis. | Resch Center
Nov. 21 | Peoria, Ill. | Peoria Civic Center***
Nov. 22 | Evansville, Ind. | The Ford Center***
Dec. 5 | Kansas City, Mo. | Sprint Center
Dec. 6 | Sioux Falls, S.D. | Denny Sanford Premier Center***
Dec. 11 | Atlanta, Ga. | The Arena at Gwinnett Center***
Dec. 12 | Lexington, Ky. | Rupp Arena***
Dec. 13 | Birmingham, Ala. | BJCC Arena***
All dates with special guest Dwight Yoakum
*denotes Brothers Osborne
**denotes Brandy Clark
***denotes Halestorm
