1/28/2016

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®

 

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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.