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Fito Páez has been forced to cancel his September shows in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Bogotá. The acclaimed Argentine musician announced Wednesday (Sep. 4) on his social media that he broke five ribs over the weekend at his home. “On Sunday morning, I had a domestic accident that resulted in the fracture of five ribs,” […]
Becky G is hitting the road in the fall with her 2024 Casa Gomez: Otro Capítulo Tour, Billboard can exclusively announce Tuesday (Aug. 20). The Mexican-American pop star is set to kick off her 14-date stint on Oct. 11 at The Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. She will visit fans in key cities such […]
Majo Aguilar and Alex Fernández will be in charge of uniting for the first time the two most important dynasties of ranchera music: the Aguilar and Fernández families.
Antonio Aguilar’s granddaughter and Vicente Fernández’s grandson have announced a tour together for the fall, which they have named Dos Dinastías, Una Tradición (Two Dynasties, One Tradition). In addition to the tour, they also announced a new collaboration, “Cuéntame,” which will be released this Thursday (Aug. 8).
“It is very common that in this type of concept there are egos or fights over credits,” Alex Fernández told Billboard Español. “Here everything will be equitable we have an excellent relationship and above all communication.”
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“Here no last name outweighs the other,” added Majo Aguilar. “It will be a show where we will take a little piece of Mexico to the United States, so that the public can feel the party and the joy of Mexican music, singing the songs of their idols Don Antonio and Don Vicente, as well as our own songs.”
The tour will kick off Oct. 25 in Savannah, Georgia and make stops in cities in Tennessee, North Carolina and California, with the first leg ending Nov. 30 in Redwood City. More dates will be announced in the near future, according to a statement.
As for the upcoming release, it is a heartbreak ranchera penned by Majo Aguilar that will also be the song that identifies the tour. “Tell me how it feels to know that you won’t touch my body/ And that no matter how hard you try our relationship is dead/ There’s no turning back,” goes a verse in Spanish.
The music video — which will serve as the intro to the show — was filmed in Monterrey, Mexico under the direction of Gil Cerezo, vocalist and creative director of the Mexican band Kinky, who has previously worked with Majo.
Although both artists manage their careers separately from that of their fathers — fellow Mexican music icons Antonio Aguilar, Jr. and Alejandro Fernández — their opinions on the concept have been very important to them.
“My dad told me that what we are doing is reviving something very wonderful in two very beautiful voices, which bodes a great success,” said Majo. Alex, for his part, shared the words of his famous father: “I am very happy with what you are doing, I am sure you will be very successful.”
Dos Dinastías, Una Tradición aims to bring traditional Mexican music to new generations.
“Subgenres such as [corridos] tumbados are good that they exist and do well, but it is important to defend tradition,” said Alex. To which Majo added: “I find the new movements that emerge in Mexican music very interesting, but I believe that we should not stop paying attention to our true roots, which are ranchera and banda music, we should not confuse one thing with the other”.
Below are the confirmed dates for Majo Aguilar and Alex Fernández’s Dos Dinastías, Una Tradición tour:
Oct. 25 — Savanna, Ga. — Convention Center
Oct. 26 — Clarksville, Tenn. — Empire Center
Oct. 27 — Wilmington, N.C. — Convention Center
Nov. 22 — Ventura, Calif. — The Majestic Ventura Theatre
Nov. 23 — Fresno, Calif. — Saroyan Theatre
Nov. 24 — Stockton, Calif. — The Bob Hope Theatre
Nov. 27 — Bakersfield, Calif. — The Fox Theater
Nov. 29 — Salinas, Calif. — The Fox Theater
Nov. 30 — Redwood City, Calif. — The Fox Theater
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Start working out, strengthen your knees, and order your outfits. Megan Thee Stallion is coming to a city near you.
That’s right hotties, this summer will be a hot one, and we’re not just talking about the heat. Megan Thee Stallion is hitting the road for a national/international tour.
The summer tour announcement comes after the Houston rapper hinted that she was prepping for it. In a post on Instagram featuring a photo of Thee Stallion in a platinum thong bikini, the tour, which begins “mid May 2024,” will hit Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, and other US cities before heading across the pond to Glasgow, Manchester, Paris and more.
“HOTTIESSS GET READY TO COME HAVE SOME FUN WITH ME AT THEE HOT GIRL SUMMER TOUR.Get your outfits ready nowww! We getting started this MAY. I told you what cities today to get yall prepared! Check back in on thee 20th for official dates im so exciteddddd,” the caption for the IG post reads.
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Megan Thee Stallion has been very busy. After reaching an agreement to part ways with 1501 Certified Entertainment, she secured a historic distribution deal with Warner Music Group and retained her masters.
She has also released two records: “Cobra,” in which she allegedly blasted her ex, Pardison Fontaine, for cheating, and “Hiss,” which caused Nicki Minaj and her extremely loyal fanbase to react epically.
Minaj responded with numerous rants on social media and her “Big Foot” diss record, which many considered a dud.
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Megan Thee Stallion has also been a part of two major motion picture releases with Dicks and Mean Girls The All-New Movie.
Earlier this month, her blerd dreams came true when she went to Japan to host the Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
It will truly be the Hot Girl Summer the hotties have deserved for years, and we’re here for it.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are returning to the road, two years after their Raise the Roof tour, for nearly 30 headline dates and counting. Beginning June 2 with a centennial celebration for the legendary Cain’s Ballroom, the Can’t Let Go Tour will see Plant, Krauss bring spellbinding vocal performances and uncanny arrangements to amphitheaters, pavilions, opera houses and other historic venues. With additional stops to still be revealed, dozens of cities will have the opportunity to experience the live show.
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Tickets for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’ Can’t Let Go Tour are on-sale at 10am local time this Friday, Feb 16, following a series of pre-sales beginning at 10am local time tomorrow, Feb. 14. Find more information at plantkrauss.com
Dates will feature support from JD McPherson, who also plays lead guitar for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, alongside an ace ensemble of drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, multi-talented string player Stuart Duncan, and Viktor Krauss on keys and guitar. Drawing from their T Bone Burnett-produced LP Raising Sand and 2021’s chart-topping Raise The Roof, Plant and Krauss will deliver a cosmic collision of early blues, country deep cuts, revolutionary folk-rock and lost soul music written by legends and unsung heroes like Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Ola Belle Reed, Brenda Burns and more, as well as reimagined renditions of Led Zeppelin cuts like “The Battle of Evermore,” “Rock & Roll,” “When The Levee Breaks” and other surprises in store.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss want to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value. To make this possible, if fans purchase tickets for a show through Ticketmaster and can’t attend, they’ll have the option to resell them to other fans at the original price paid using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange. To help protect the Exchange, the artists have also chosen to make tickets for this tour mobile only and restricted from transfer. This applies to all shows ticketed by Ticketmaster. Please note, a valid bank account or debit card within the country of your event is required to sell on the Face Value Exchange.
Can’t Let Go Tour 2024
6/2- Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
6/4 – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater*
6/5 – Lincoln, NE – Pinewood Bowl Theater*
6/7 – Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater*
6/8 – Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field*
6/11 – Des Moines, IA – Lauridsen Amphitheater at Waterworks Park*
6/12 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival*#
6/14 – Toledo, OH – Toledo Zoo & Aquarium – Amphitheater*
6/15 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake*
6/18 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap*
6/19 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap*
8/8 – Missoula, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater*
8/9 – Missoula, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater*
8/11 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Music Festival!
8/13 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre*
8/14 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre*
8/16 – Seattle, WA – Venue TBD*^
8/17 – Seattle, WA – Venue TBD*^
8/19 – Eugene, OR – The Cuthbert Amphitheater*
8/21 – Murphy’s, CA – Ironstone Amphitheatre*
8/22 – Stanford, CA – Frost Amphitheater*
8/24 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre*
8/25 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater*
8/26 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater*
8/28 – Santa Fe, NM – The Santa Fe Opera*
8/29 – Santa Fe, NM – The Santa Fe Opera*
8/31 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunset Amphitheater*
9/1 – Vail, CO – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater*
*w/ JD McPherson
# on-sale April 24th
! on-sale June 1st
^on-sale March 25th
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Fresh off the announcement of Big Mouth’s forthcoming seventh season — which is set to star Megan Thee Stallion — comedian, voice actor, and writer John Mulaney has revealed a slew of new 2023 tour dates. John Mulaney In Concert — which features a brand new show from the award-winning star — kicks off on […]
Travis Scott is ready to head out on the road! The rapper took to Instagram on Tuesday (Aug. 8) to tease his upcoming U.S. and European tours in support of his freshly released album, Utopia. “UTOPIA TOUR SOON, US AND EURO DATES SOON TO BE ANNOUNCE, I MISS THE ROAD I MISSS YALLL,” he wrote. […]
When Madonna was forced to reschedule her 84-date Celebration Tour on Wednesday after she was stricken with a bacterial infection and hospitalized in the ICU, concern immediately turned to the pop superstar’s health (luckily, she’s expected to make a full recovery). But for industry watchers, the postponement also raises an interesting question: Just how much does it cost to reschedule a tour of that magnitude?
It’s impossible to come up with a solid number given all of the moving parts involved in a tour of this scale, particularly without having access to any insurance policies or contracts with venues and vendors. But postponing that large of a tour just over two weeks short of the July 15 opener at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada — and then rescheduling it — will nonetheless amount to a huge endeavor requiring hours of phone calls, disruptions to people’s lives and plenty of sunk costs for venues, show crew members, ticket buyers and Madonna herself.
Live Nation and Madonna’s touring team have already spent millions on equipment and infrastructure. While much of the show is custom-built and designed, there are plenty of production pieces — from speakers to staging — that are rented from major backline companies. The tour has also chartered buses and trucks and rented venues, which are expenditures that require deposits with varying costs depending on demand and availability.
Live Nation and the Madonna tour will have to pay some of these deposits, especially for those high-demand items that can’t be redirected toward other tours. In some cases, they will also be on the hook for venue deposits for canceled shows, although most venues will waive the cost to maintain a good relationship with Live Nation, which brings many arenas most of their touring content.
The largest group impacted by the postponement will be the approximately 1.2 million fans who purchased tickets for the tour, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Some fans booked airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental properties around the tour, and some of those purchases will be deemed non-refundable. Those fans will have to make new plans after the rescheduled Madonna dates are announced, likely sometime in the next few weeks. Those who can’t attend might be able to get a refund, depending on what Madonna’s team decides, or sell their tickets on either a fan-to-fan exchange for face value or on a ticket resale site like StubHub or Vivid Seats.
The largest human costs will be borne by a much smaller group: the men and women working as roadies, touring professionals and support staff for the tour. With just over two weeks to go before opening, most positions on the tour have been filled, and many have started work building sets, editing content and rehearsing. As independent contractors, rescheduling the tour means their pay will be interrupted too, potentially leaving hundreds of people unemployed when they had planned to be working. While many, depending on the state, will receive a small severance and qualify for limited unemployment benefits, the disruption caused by the postponement will almost certainly mean that many touring professionals will not generate the income they had budgeted for this year and will now have to spend the months they thought they had secure employment looking for new work.
Fortunately, because the concert business is currently so strong at the highest level, there are more work opportunities in touring now than ever before, and some crew members will be able to immediately find replacement gigs. Others, however, will have to wait months until the rescheduled Madonna tour launches.
For the touring operation itself, the costs of the postponement could easily add up to millions of dollars. But the Celebration Tour has been so successful — more than 600,000 tickets were sold the first day tickets went on sale — that it will still amount to a huge financial windfall for Live Nation and Madonna when the tour eventually hits the road. That doesn’t mean it’ll be easy for everyone getting there