In July 2021, Garth Brooks announced his first-ever show at Lumen Field in Seattle, set for September 4 as his only Pacific Northwest stop.
Then COVID cases surged again, and he halted the on-sale and scrapped the date before a single ticket was sold.
“With a hopeful heart, we will reschedule and start over when this wave seems to be behind us,” he said in a statement at the time.
Five years later, he is coming back. Garth Brooks announced on his website and social media on October 14 that his Blame It All On My Roots Tour will play two nights at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena, Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 23, at 10 a.m. PT through Ticketmaster, and every seat in the building costs $155.50.
According to the Yakima Herald, these will be his first local shows since 2017, when he played five shows in three days at the Tacoma Dome. That ends a nine-year wait, with one stadium night in the middle that never happened.
Garth Brooks Opened for The Judds in Seattle Before He Headlined the Same Arena
Seattle has been on Brooks’ map for a long time. He first played the city in 1991 as the opening act for The Judds, and on his 1996-1998 World Tour he came back as the headliner in the building then called Key Arena. That building is Climate Pledge Arena now, so in November he returns to a room he has already headlined.
The region saw him again in 2017 at the Tacoma Dome, and four years later he reached for a stadium. When the Lumen Field date fell apart, his statement explained that he had sincerely believed that July that the pandemic was falling behind everyone, and that watching the new wave showed him he was still in the fight and had to do his part.
For fans who have waited since 2017, two nights in a building with this much of his history in it carry real weight.
Every Seattle Ticket Costs $155.50, and the Drum Pod Comes Back With Him
The price is the same no matter where the seat is. His website breaks it down as a $140.00 base, a $5.50 facility fee and a $10.00 service fee, plus applicable sales tax. The shows offer both end-stage and in-the-round seating, and all of it sells at that one price.
Brooks has been plain about why that matters to him. “The cost of going to a concert is skyrocketing out of control,” he said on his site. “Affordability is always the question,” he added.
For You
His tour announcement explained the move back to arenas in his own words.
“Going back into the arenas is about putting the stadium show in a box… Every seat is a great seat. This is personal.
That box holds a lot. The stage is a 360-degree design circled by LED screens known as the halo, and the tour brings back his famous Drum Pod. Double Live, recorded on his earlier Drum Pod-era tour, is certified 25 million by the RIAA, and his website calls it the biggest-selling live album in recorded music history.
RELATED: Is Garth Brooks Retiring? The Country Legend Admits He’s ‘Not Sure What the Future Holds’
This tour will serve as the foundation for a new live project called Killer Live.
He wants those seats going to real fans. When bots hit the on-sale for a third Salt Lake City show on this tour, he shut it down 30 minutes in. He has urged fans to join the Ticketmaster waiting room before the queue opens and update their information ahead of time, explaining that it helps block bots so real people have a fair shot.
Tickets open the morning of October 23, the same day he starts three nights at the BOK Center in Tulsa, the city where he was born. Kansas City follows at T-Mobile Center on November 6 and 7, and then the tour heads to Seattle.
The singer who opened for The Judds there in 1991 is bringing the Drum Pod back to the arena he once headlined, nine years after his last local show and five years after the stadium night that never happened.
Know someone who loves Garth Brooks?
Pass this story along to your friends and family on Facebook.
