Garth Brooks fans had better have some friends in high places if they didn’t secure any tickets to his next show in Edmonton.
Minutes after sales opened at 10 a.m. Friday, tickets for the 61,000-seat show at Commonwealth Stadium sold out, leaving thousands more fans in Western Canada locked out of the music superstar’s first concert. country in Alberta’s capital in five years.
Brooks’ PR team said it took 45 minutes, but some have reported seeing the “sold out” status just 22 minutes after sales opened.
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Country music artist whose biggest songs include It won’t fall (until the sun comes up) Y unanswered prayers took to social media to say that she heard her fans’ prayers to watch her June 25 show.
“Spoke to Ticketmaster and they said many of you never even went inside to look for tickets…and tens of thousands of you were still in the waiting room when they sold out,” he posted on Twitter. “Let me see what the options are, please.”
In February 2017, the Tulsa native’s suit extended his Edmonton run to nine sold-out shows at Rogers Place, with 160,000 fans passing through the turnstiles.
The June concert in Edmonton is Brooks’ only Canadian stop on his Stadium Tour, which has been halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an interview with Global News earlier this week, Brooks said he expected the show at Commonwealth Stadium to be like a “family reunion.”
Last Saturday, a Brooks show in Louisiana got so raucous that it was recorded on a Seismograph at Louisiana State University during the song Calling Baton Rouge.
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