Garth Brooks announces a three-year stadium tour

Since Garth Brooks finished his record tour last December, his fans are waiting for his next Big Thing. On Wednesday, Brooks announced that he would make a gigantic tour: a three-year tour and thirty stadium stadiums will begin in the spring.

"I wanted to call it the" Big-Ass Stadium Tour, "but they rejected me," said Brooks, 56, at a press conference held at the Museum of Music Fame. Nashville Country. "So we're going to call it the stadium tour for now."

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The announcement will take place just three days before Brooks' sold-out show at Notre Dame on Saturday, the first concert in the legendary university stadium. CBS-TV will be there to film this concert to be aired on December 2 – which is all the more news from Garth on Wednesday – and for that reason, Brooks said, the event of Notre Dame will certainly not be a model. for what is coming.

"All you know about Notre Dame went really bad about three weeks ago when we found out that CBS was interested in filming," said the year's reigning artist of the year. # 39; AMC. "We have never filmed anything until the end, so Notre Dame will be the beginning and the end for us … We will come back to the drawing board, we will change the scene. So, Notre Dame will really be a unique piece … because the last thing I like to see is something on TV and then go to see exactly the same thing. "

Do not worry, though: "Garth Brooks is not going to roll in your place and not play" The Thunder Rolls "or" Friends in Low Places "or" Calling Baton Rouge "," he said. at PEOPLE. "I'm lucky to have been able to play them, but at the same time, we try to make sure that the [concerts] different."

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This means changes in the stage effects, the concert atmosphere and the composition of the group. Due to the location of the stadiums, Brooks also hopes to turn each concert into a "match day".

"So, will you see the tattoos on your face? You speak, he says. "We will encourage people to come in the colors of the school or team … I do not see how to make music more fun than adding sports. … You can take ideas as far as you want, right? You can be totally stupid. Should there be a half-time in the show? … It's wide open. It will be really fun to imagine and try things. "

In keeping with the theme of the university, Brooks said the stadium concerts would also include a segment titled "Music 101" – classic songs that younger generations "should never, never forget".

"And then, all right, it will be something they will never forget anyway," he said, "but it will be fun to be able to play the music of others …" I know how much they have influenced our music and still are. "

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One thing spectators will probably not see: Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood, who shared the bill throughout his tour. Although she can make some surprise appearances, she is now turning to solo tours – a company that Brooks intends to support with her presence.

"The only comment we heard during the return tour is that we want Trisha to play longer," said Brooks. "Have her come and play three or four songs and go – I think her love for music is deeper than that. So she probably has her own tour that she is going to announce. And we will not be separated. She will be present and I will be present during her tours because it is our goal. It is to spend as few nights as possible. "

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The 30 concerts will take place at college sites and professional sports team sites. The first five dates will be on sale before Christmas and will begin at Dome at America's Center in the spring. The second site will be State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, outside of Phoenix. The other three sites are still under contract negotiation.

Brooks will return to the cities participating in his arena tour, but he intends to leave at least four years between the dates of the two tours in each specific venue. Announcements of later dates will be staggered, as Brooks did for his arena tour, but he hinted that he had already set his sights on Gillette Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts; AT & T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas; and the Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans in Nashville.

"I can not imagine not going home," he said about the prospect of an appointment in Nashville. "When it comes to the best places to play, industrial cities are never on the list of the best places to play – unless it's the city of Nashville that's freaking out."