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LUKE BRYAN’S “DIRT ROAD DIARIES TOUR” ADDS SECOND SHOW AT NASHVILLE’S BRIDGESTONE ARENA DUE TO OVERWHELMING POPULAR DEMAND

August 14, 2013

Nashville,TN –  Luke Bryan’s “Dirt Road Diaries Tour” is selling out venues across the U.S. and it was announced today that the tour will add a second show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Saturday, October 19 due to overwhelming popular demand!  The sold-out Friday, October 18 show will feature openers Florida Georgia Line and Thompson Square and the October 19 show will feature very special guest Dierks Bentley and Cole Swindell.

Tickets for the Saturday, October 19 show will be on sale to the general public on Friday, August 16th at 10:00am at www.livenation.com, www.ticketmaster.com, the Bridgestone Arena Box Office or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000.

Luke’s fourth studio album Crash My Party, produced by Jeff Stevens, will be in stores next Tuesday, August 13.  It contains the three-week #1 title track song “Crash My Party,” which recently set a Billboard record as the largest 1-week audience since 2005 with 45.5 million listeners and has sold a million copies.  The latest single from the new project, “That’s My Kinda Night,” debuted this week at #21 on the Billboard Country radio chart, and is the highest debuting single of his career.

Luke’s career now boasts over four million in album sales with seven #1 singles and he is the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year.  Luke was named the #1 Artist of 2012 and #1 Male Artist of 2012 by Country Aircheck.  Billboard named tailgates & tanlines the #2 Country Album and the #3 Country Artist Album of 2012 and claimed Luke as the #3 Top Country Artist of the Year.  Also in 2012, Luke took home 11 music awards, including a record nine wins at the American Country Awards as well as his first American Music Award.  This spring, Luke co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Blake Shelton and received the coveted Entertainer of the Year award as well as the Vocal Event award with Jason Aldean and Eric Church for “The Only Way I Know.”  At the CMT Music Awards in June, Luke won for Collaborative Video of the Year for “The Only Way I Know.”

Live Nation is the national tour promoter for the “Dirt Road Diaries Tour.”  Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, is sponsoring the tour.  GAC: Great American Country is the media sponsor for the second leg of the tour.  For additional information on the tour and ticket on sale dates please go to www.lukebryan.com
or www.livenation.com.

Citi is the official credit card of the “Dirt Road Diaries Tour.”  For more details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

“Dirt Road Diaries Tour”
8-9          Mountain View, CA   Shoreline Amphitheatre
8-10        Irvine, CA                   Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8-11        San Diego, CA            Sleep Train Amphitheatre formerly Cricket
Wireless Amphitheatre
8-23        Bethel, NY                  Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
8-24        Holmdel, NJ                PNC Bank Arts Center
8-25        Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
9-12        Wichita, KS                INTRUST Bank Arena
9-14        Tulsa, OK                   BOK Center
9-20        Salt Lake City, UT     USANA Amphitheatre
9-21        Denver, CO                Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
9-26        Cincinnati, OH           Riverbend Music Center
9-27        Cleveland, OH           Blossom Music Center
9-28        Pittsburgh, PA           First Niagara Pavilion
10-17     Little Rock, AR          Verizon Arena
10-18     Nashville, TN              Bridgestone Arena
10-19     Nashville, TN              Bridgestone Arena
10-24     Tampa, FL                   MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
10-25     Tampa, FL                   MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
10-26     West Palm Beach, FL  Cruzan Amphitheatre