8/30/2016

Carrie Launches Fall Leg Of “The Storyteller Tour – Stories In The Round”

Carrie Underwood Launches Fall Leg of
“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round

Billboard’s #1 Country Tour

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Photo credit: Jeff Johnson

NASHVILLE, Tenn – (August 30, 2016) – Seven-time Grammy winner and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, will launch the fall leg of “The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round,” the biggest tour of her career, tomorrow night in Anchorage, Alaska. Billboard ranked the tour the #1 country tour for the first half of 2016.

The fall tour dates of “The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round begins with Carrie’s inaugural performance in Alaska tomorrow night, and will include stops at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA, Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN and Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. When the tour wraps at the end of November she will have played 82 arenas on tour. In December Carrie will join Keith Urban on the Australian and New Zealand leg of hisripCORD World Tour 2016.

During the first half of 2016 “The Storyteller Tour” rolled in to 47 cities as well as seven different countries, playing to nearly 600,000 people since the tour launched January 30 in Jacksonville, FL. The dramatic in-the-round stage production has been seen by 360-degree sell-out arena crowds across North America in cities such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, St. Louis, Denver, Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, Chicago, Toronto to name just a few. The tour crossed from one coast to the other coast and cities in between as well as traveling overseas to play in Sweden, Norway, Scotland, England, and Ireland as part of Country to Country (C2C), Europe’s biggest country music festival.

The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round,” one of her most spectacular concert tours to date, has caught the attention of fans and music critics alike because of the stand-out performances and the dynamic production.

The show “is a no-expense-spared spectacle that highlights her approachable beauty, her roar of a voice and a substantive set of songs that have commanded the charts since her ‘American Idol’ victory a long decade ago.”
Atlanta Journal Constitution.

“The most stunning part of the production however, remains Underwood’s voice, strong and nuanced.”
The Boston Globe

“Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show.” – Florida Times-Union

The 2016 tour is in support of Carrie’s Gold-certified Storyteller album, which made a historic debut in October 2015 when she became the only artist in the chart’s 51-year history to have each of her first six albums to enter the chart at #1. The album has produced three #1 singles so far with “Smoke Break,” “Heartbeat” and “Church Bells” with it’s fourth single, “Dirty Laundry,” currently climbing the charts.

A donation of $1 from each ticket sold on the U.S. dates of “The Storyteller Tour” will be contributed to the C.A.T.S Foundation to help aid its causes including Checotah, Oklahoma’s education and literacy programs. Established in 2009, the C.A.T.S. (Checotah Animal, Town, and School) Foundation helps with general causes, needs, and services in the area of Checotah, Oklahoma, Carrie’s hometown, to directly impact the community.

The North American tour, with the exception of Anchorage, is promoted by AEG Live and includes special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers. Tickets are available now for the fall dates of The Storyteller Tour at www.aeglive.com. For information on fan club and VIP packages go to www.carrieunderwood.fm.

The Storyteller Tour fall dates:

Aug-31   

Anchorage, AK

Alaska Airlines Center

Sept-4

Spokane, WA

Spokane Arena

Sept-6

Boise, ID

Taco Bell Arena

Sept-8

Seattle, WA

KeyArena at Seattle Center

Sept-10

San Jose, CA

SAP Center at San Jose

Sept-13

Bakersfield, CA

Rabobank Arena

Sept-14

Los Angeles, CA

STAPLES Center

Sept-16

San Diego, CA

Valley View Casino Center

Sept-20

Dallas, TX

American Airlines Center

Sept-22

Nashville, TN

Bridgestone Arena

Sept-24

Columbia, SC

Colonial Life Arena

Sept-26

Roanoke, VA

Berglund Center

Sept-28

Providence, RI

Dunkin’ Donuts Center

Sept-29

Manchester, NH

Verizon Wireless Arena

Oct-1

Hershey, PA

Giant Center

Oct-4

Indianapolis, IN

Bankers Life Fieldhouse

Oct-5

Milwaukee, WI

BMO Harris Bradley Center

Oct-7

Des Moines, IA

Wells Fargo Arena

Oct-8

Sioux Falls, SD

Denny Sanford PREMIER Center

Oct-11

Saskatoon, SK

SaskTel Centre

Oct-13

Edmonton, AB

Rogers Place

Oct 15

Winnipeg, MB

MTS Center

Oct-17

St. Paul, MN

Xcel Energy Center

Oct-20

Cincinnati, OH

U.S. Bank Arena

Oct-22

Charlottesville, VA

John Paul Jones Arena

Oct-23

Charlotte, NC

Time Warner Cable Arena

Oct-25

New York, NY

Madison Square Garden

Oct-27

Albany, NY

Times Union Center

Oct-28

Uncasville, CT

Mohegan Sun Arena

Nov-6

Hamilton, ON

FirstOntario Centre

Nov-9

Rockford, IL

BMO Harris Bank Center

Nov-11

Evansville, IN

Ford Center

Nov-13

Memphis, TN

FedExForum

Nov-14

Birmingham, AL

Legacy Arena at The BJCC

Nov-16

Tampa, FL

Amalie Arena

Nov-17

Sunrise, FL

BB&T Center

Nov-22

Wichita, KS

INTRUST Bank Arena

Nov-23

Oklahoma City, OK

Chesapeake Energy Arena

Nov-26

Las Vegas, NV

T-Mobile Arena

Nov-28      

West Valley City, UT

Maverik Center

ripCORD World Tour 2016 New Zealand & Australia tour dates:

Dec-3

Wellington

Westpac Stadium

Dec-6

Adelaide

Entertainment Centre

Dec-8

Melbourne

Rod Laver Arena

Dec-9

Melbourne

Rod Laver Arena

Dec-10

Canberra

GIO Stadium

Dec-12

Sydney

Qudos Bank Arena

Dec-14

Sydney

ICC Sydney Theatre

Dec-16

Brisbane

Entertainment Centre

Dec-17

Brisbane

Entertainment Centre

Each of Carrie’s three previous headline arena tours, 2008’s Carnival Ride Tour, the Play On Tour in 2010, and 2012-2013’s Blown Away Tour played for over one million fans. When the Blown Away Tour wrapped in 2013, Carrie had performed 112 shows in 110 cities across three continents and six countries, including sold-out shows at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, and two nights at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.