UPDATE: Brantley Gilbert has carved out a chunk of pavilion seats to sell for $20 that he calls the "Working Class Tickets." They are on a first-come, first-served basis when tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
"I know some of my most hardcore fans come for the music," Gilbert says. "They want to be under the roof, where they can really see and hear the show. I hate that it’s always impossible for the folks in the BG Nation, who’re trying to make ends meet, to get into those seats – so we’re teaming with Live Nation to create a Working Class ticket."
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With Brantley Gilbert’s Devil Don’t Sleep Tour crossing the Rust Belt and heartland, the renegade country star turns to warmer weather – knowing when the cold temperatures burn off, he wants to be ready when the first leg of his high impact tour wraps April 29 in Duluth.
Brantley Gilbert will bring his “The Devil Don’t Sleep” Tour to PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte on Friday July 7 and Coastal Credit Union Music Park Raleigh on Saturday September 23.
Special guests Tyler Farr and Luke Combs will open the shows.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 3 at 10 AM at LiveNation.com, the venue box offices, Ticketmaster, or by phone 800-745-3000. For more information or to purchase tickets go to LiveNation.com.
“These shows in the arenas are so loud and so wild,” says the songwriter whose penned six #1s, including the CMA Song of the Year nominee “Dirt Road Anthem,” of the road. “You almost can’t hold that energy in the building, but come summer – when we take it outside – it’s a whole other kind of deal when we get outside with the BG Nation.”
“There are so many different ways to do this come warm weather,” Gilbert explains. “And I like’em all. Festivals are just a party with a whole lotta music… There’s not much realer – or more like where I come from – than a fair… and those amphitheater shows, well, that’s where the BG Nation comes together to throw it down. You know, it’s why when we take it outside, it’s just good, and we have the party of the summer everywhere we go.”
This year’s show – with new music from his #1 all-genre Top 200 Selling Albums The Devil Don’t Sleep – has been striking a chord with his already passionate fanbase. The Reading Eagle wrote of opening night, “far from an outlier; Gilbert stuck his microphone out for audience participation in nearly every song, and they were happy to oblige. This wasn't music for thinking, it was music for escaping” and touring industry trade Pollstar echoed, “on a brief instrumental honky tonk interlude that allowed the five musicians backing Gilbert to show off their chops, the music was heavily country. But for much of the the show, it was an amalgam of styles Gilbert grew up listening to, incorporating crunchy guitars, drum machines, even some rapped verses.”