Carrie Underwood Continues Momentum Into 2016, “The Storyteller Tour” Launches This Weekend
Carrie Underwood Continues Momentum Into 2016
“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round” to Launch This Weekend
Carrie to Perform on 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®
NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – (January 28, 2016) – 2016 Grammy nominee and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, will launch a new arena tour this Saturday, January 30th, with a sold-out show in Jacksonville, Florida at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round, in association with award-winning cosmetics brand ALMAY, will take new music from her Gold-certified Storyteller album on the road, playing 40 arenas across the U.S. and Canada as well as five international shows in March during Europe’s biggest country music festival, Country to Country (C2C).
On The Storyteller Tour Underwood will meet soldiers and their families in a new initiative with Carnival Cruise Line and Operation Homefront, a national non-profit that builds strong, stable, and secure military families. The year-longHonor. Family. Fun. program will help raise funds for Operation Homefront. Videos highlighting the meet & greets and the families’ individual stories will be featured on carnival.com/HonorFamilyFun.
After the tour’s first week, Underwood will continue her momentum from an impressive 2015, which closed with a live performance in Times Square on New Year’s Eve garnering 28 million viewers. She will perform a collaboration with Sam Hunt at the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, where the seven-time GRAMMY winner is nominated this year for “Little Toy Guns” in the Best Country Solo Performance category. The GRAMMY Awards® will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
The GRAMMYs have included Underwood in their promotional campaign, “Witness Greatness,” which celebrates the uniqueness of Music’s Biggest Night through TV, print, social, and outdoor advertisements. Also featured are Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Sam Smith, and The Weeknd.
The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round is promoted by AEG Live and will include special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers on the North American dates. Tickets are available now at www.aeglive.com.
The Storyteller Tour:
| Jan-30 | Jacksonville, FL | Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena |
| Feb-1 | Duluth, GA | Infinite Energy Arena |
| Feb-3 | Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Coliseum |
| Feb-5 | Louisville, KY | KFC Yum! Center |
| Feb-17 | Pittsburgh, PA | CONSOL Energy Center |
| Feb-20 | Hampton, VA | Hampton Coliseum |
| Feb-22 | Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center |
| Feb-23 | Boston, MA | TD Garden |
| Feb-25 | Washington, DC | Verizon Center |
| Mar 4
Mar 5 Mar-11 |
Stockholm, Sweden
Oslo, Norway Glasgow, Scotland |
C2C/ Hovet*
C2C/ Spektrum* C2C/ Clyde Auditorium* |
| Mar-12 | London, England | C2C/ O2 Arena* |
| Mar-13 | Dublin, Ireland | C2C/ 3 Arena* |
| Mar-17 | Youngstown, OH | Covelli Centre |
| Mar-19 | Allentown, PA | PPL Center |
| Mar-22 | Auburn Hills, MI | The Palace of Auburn Hills |
| Mar-24 | St. Louis, MO | Chaifetz Arena |
| Mar-26 | Lincoln, NE | Pinnacle Bank Arena |
| Mar-29 | Colorado Springs, CO | Broadmoor World Arena |
| Mar-30 | Denver, CO | Pepsi Center |
| Apr-1 | Las Vegas, NV | ACM Party for a Cause Festival* |
| Apr-5 | Fresno, CA | Save Mart Center |
| Apr-8 | Reno, NV | Reno Events Center |
| Apr-10 | Oakland, CA | Oracle Arena |
| Apr-12 | Stockton, CA | Stockton Arena |
| Apr-14 | Phoenix, AZ | Talking Stick Resort Arena |
| Apr-16 | Las Cruces, NM | Pan American Center |
| Apr-18 | San Antonio, TX | AT&T Center |
| Apr-19 | Houston, TX | Toyota Center |
| Apr-22 | Bossier City, LA | CenturyLink Center |
| Apr-24 | Lafayette, LA | Cajundome |
| Apr-27 | Tulsa, OK | BOK Center |
| Apr-28 | N. Little Rock, AR | Verizon Arena |
| Apr-30 | Indio, CA | Stagecoach* |
| May-3 | Madison, WI | Kohl Center |
| May-5 | Green Bay, WI | Resch Center |
| May-7 | Grand Forks, ND | Ralph Engelstad Arena |
| May-10 | Casper, WY | Casper Events Center |
| May-12 | Billings, MT | Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark |
| May-15 | Kansas City, MO | Sprint Center |
| May-17 | Rosemont, IL | Allstate Arena |
| May-18 | Cleveland, OH | Quicken Loans Arena |
| May-24 | Buffalo, NY | First Niagara Center |
| May-27 | Ottawa, ON | Canadian Tire Centre |
| May-28 | Toronto, ON | Air Canada Centre |
| May-30 | London, ON | Budweiser Gardens |
*festival date
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.