Garth Brooks is leaning into affordability. The “Friends in Low Places” singer is pricing every seat on his new arena tour around $150. As a press release trumpets, “every seat in the house, one fair price.” The breakdown is $140 for the ticket, four bucks for a facility fee, and a $10 service charge, plus taxes.
Fans of Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam may recognize the all-in pricing from past tours by those artists, as well as by Brooks. But this marks a rare moment for such pricing in an era of increasingly rising ticket costs.
Dubbed the Blame It All on My Roots Tour, after the opening line of “Friends in Low Places,” the run kicks off with two shows in August at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. In typical Brooks fashion, the tour dates will be announced piecemeal, city by city. Brooks headlined Hyde Park in London last month, playing for an estimated 70,000 fans. The new tour will hit arenas.
“Going back into the arenas is about putting the stadium show in a box,” Brooks said in a statement. “The excitement gets multiplied by the intimacy. Every seat is a great seat. This is personal.”
Brooks is also set to record the performances for a new concert album he’s calling Killer Live.
Tickets to the back-to-back shows in Indy, Aug. 21 and 22, go on sale Friday, July 17, at 10 a.m. ET, via Ticketmaster. According to the release, the tickets will all go on sale at once — no presales or advance purchases. Fans are limited to buying eight tickets.
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