Rolling Stones announce 2024 ‘Hackney Diamonds’ concert tour, sponsored by AARP. Here are all the dates
The band will perform in 16 cities in the U.S. and Canada, including concerts in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. The lone Canadian tour stop is in Vancouver
The Rolling Stones are wasting little time hitting the road to promote “Hackney Diamonds,” the legendary English band’s first album of new songs since 2005’s “A Bigger Bang” — and its first since the 2021 death of the group’s drummer, Charlie Watts.
The silver-haired drummer provided the musical heartbeat of the famed English rock band for more than 50 years
Billed as the Rolling Stones Tour 2024 Hackney Diamonds, the 16-city North American concert trek was announced Tuesday morning, just one month after the acclaimed album’s Oct. 20 release. The tour will open with an April 28 concert at NRG Stadium in Houston and conclude with a July 17 performance near San Francisco at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
The Santa Clara date will be preceded by a July 10 concert at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. As of now, that is the only Southern California show included in the itinerary for the tour. The band performed at SoFi in 2021 on its first tour with drummer Steve Jordan, Watts’ replacement. The band’s touring tenor saxophonist since 2014 has been San Diego’s Karl Denson.
The saxophonist, flutist and singer leads his own band, Tiny Universe, and tours with the Rolling Stones. ‘Seeing Mick and the other Stones, who all work at such a high level, is always good for you,’ he notes
The Houston and Santa Clara 2024 tour dates will bookend 14 other concerts by the Stones, whose two co-founding members — lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards — are 80 and 79, respectively. While neither of them show any signs of easing into retirement, the Hackney Diamonds tour is being sponsored by AARP, which will have a ticket pre-sale for its members.
Ticket prices have not yet been announced for the 2024 tour by the Stones, whose 12-show 2021 North American “No Filter” tour grossed a reported $115.5 million. The band’s 2021 tour was pushed back from 2020 by the COVID-19 shutdown. That tour had been scheduled to open in May 2020 at San Diego’s now-defunct SDCCU Stadium, but that date was canceled after the venue was leveled to make way for San Diego State University’s considerably smaller Snapdragon Stadium.
That promoters of that tour and the upcoming 2024 Stones’ tour are AEG and Concerts West.
Tickets for the Hackney Diamonds tour will go on sale to the general public Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. local time through ticketmaster.com. There will be several pre-sales for the July 10 Los Angeles concert — and, presumably, the other tour dates — beginning with an “artist pre-sale” that runs Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. local time until 10 p.m. Nov. 30.
A pre-sale for AARP members, will run Nov. 29 from 1 p.m. local time until 10 p.m. Nov. 30. It will be followed by a 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Nov. 30 AEG/Ticketmaster/SoFi Stadium pre-sale.
Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds 2024 tour dates
Sunday, April 28: NRG Stadium, Houston, TX
Thursday, May 2: Jazz Fest, New Orleans, LA
Tuesday, May 7: State Farm Stadium, Glendale, AZ
Saturday, May 11: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV
Wednesday, May 15: Lumen Field, Seattle, WA
Thursday, May 23: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Thursday, May 30: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA
Monday, June 3: Camping World Stadium, Orlando, FL
Friday, June 7: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, June 11: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, June 15: Cleveland Browns Stadium, Cleveland, OH
Thursday, June 20: Empower Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO
Thursday, June 27: Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
Friday, July 5: BC Place, Vancouver, BC
Wednesday, July 10: SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, July 17: Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA
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