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Janelle Monáe, Gary Clark Jr. announced for new Black music festival in Indy
The single-day Black music festival designed to honor rock ’n’ roll originators is planned for downtown’s American Legion Mall in May.
The single-day Black music festival designed to honor rock ’n’ roll originators is planned for downtown’s American Legion Mall in May.
More than 600,000 tickets were sold for $31.8 million to concert attendees at Noblesville’s Ruoff Music Center in 2023, according to Pollstar magazine.
Jazz, hip-hop, rock and country styles will be represented when touring acts bring holiday shows to Indianapolis and Carmel.
Most Indianapolis hotels won’t open bookings for another two weeks, 50 weeks before the first of Taylor Swift’s three shows at Lucas Oil Stadium. But downtown rooms are expected to sell out quickly, followed closely by hotels across the Indianapolis area.
Everwise Credit Union, the venue’s naming-rights partner, was known as Teachers Credit Union until June 2023.
IUPUI alum Jenny Boyts, who is board president for Indy Pride Inc., will lead Forty5, which presents concerts at the Vogue and Holliday Park.
Carrie Newcomer’s next central Indiana performance is scheduled for March 9 at the Tarkington at Carmel’s Center for the Performing Arts.
Teresa Reynolds & the Slicktones will celebrate the release of “The Postal Recording Sessions” on Saturday at the Mousetrap Bar & Grill.
Bass player Stanley Clarke will share a bill with Boney James and Sheila E when Indy Jazz Fest concludes Saturday in White River State Park.
Bocelli will once again be teamed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for the April 13 concert.
Riding high on the back of his No. 1 country single “Last Night” and a couple of rising hits, Wallen has extended his current “One Night at a Time” tour to include 10 dates in 2024.
The guitarist will do double duty at Saturday’s Farm Aid at Ruoff Music Center, playing in bands of John Mellencamp and Jim Irsay.
Strait, who last performed locally in 2011, and “Tennessee Whiskey” singer Stapleton plan to kick off their 2024 stadium concert tour in Indianapolis.
A weekend punctuated by high-profile concerts begins Friday with a free show featuring John Mellencamp and Stephen Stills.
The second All IN Music & Arts Festival is planning “Dreamsets” to celebrate songs popularized by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
Organizers of the 22nd edition of Tonic Ball on Thursday unveiled the quartet of honored artists and the date for this year’s event.
Cultural firm GangGang and concert company Forty5 unveiled plans for I Made Rock ’N’ Roll during a Rock the Ruins show in Holliday Park on Friday night. Organizers said the festival will be the first of its kind in the United States.
Eric Neuburger, the director of Lucas Oil Stadium, discusses the advance work required to prepare for the shows, the questions that still need answers and the staff of more than 2,000 people required to stage and host each concert.
In some ways, the work to land three Taylor Swift concerts at Lucas Oil Stadium next year began 15 years ago when country star Kenny Chesney headlined the first concert in the building a month after it opened.
Music superstar Taylor Swift is planning to bring her The Eras Tour to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in 2024.