Not only do you not see this often, we do not recall seeing this ever. Last yr, the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) sold greater than 10,000 general admission tickets for this yr’s U.S. Grand Prix that happens Oct. 18-20. The early bird price for the three-day passes was $299. Now COTA desires to buy those tickets back from the purchasers for $350 apiece, in order that COTA can resell them for a fair higher price once the venue broadcasts this yr’s musical act. COTA hosts live shows on the Friday and Saturday of the race weekend, often booking two marquee musical acts to play as evening headliners. In 2022, Green Day played Friday evening, Ed Sheeran on Saturday; in 2023, Queen and Adam Lambert played Saturday. At some point after last yr’s early ticket sales, COTA locked in an artist (or band) for this yr it thinks will bring all of the music lovers to the yard — and it desires to charge them greater than $299.
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Event organizers plan to announce the act on April 29; the offer is open from now until May 6 — which, as organizers have admitted, gives $299 ticket holders loads of time to sell their tickets using other signifies that yield the next profit than $60. The track told CNN that the brand new ticket price will remain below $400 (hint: $399).
Who could the act be? The track is not giving hints apart from to say it hasn’t hosted a star this big since Taylor Swift. With Swift being the largest musical act on this planet in the intervening time, having just just released a brand new album while her record-breaking Eras Tour continues with U.S. and international dates throughout December 2024, we wonder if COTA’s pulling a sly one and has managed to get Swift again. Her concert dates show her returning to the U.S. for the ultimate leg of the Eras Tour, landing in Miami for a three-day run on the Hard Rock over the three days of the U.S. Grand Prix. Theoretically, that rules her out.
Could be an enormous vintage act like Bruce Springsteen or The Eagles or Madonna (all also touring this yr), but that looks like a protracted shot. The name that looks like each more likely and like a fair longer shot, but that satisfies the star criteria and COTA’s hare-brained buyback scheme: Beyoncé. Her Renaissance Tour ended last October, but her Cowboy Carter album — which is the second piece of her planned Renaissance trilogy — got here out earlier this month. She hit the highest of the country charts with it. The website for the album features plenty of Texas-based scenes. One of the primary two singles released is named “Texas Hold ‘Em.” There shall be a Cowboy Carter tour, although it hasn’t been announced yet, and knowing Beyoncé, it could take longer than a yr to choreograph and arrange. But why not a one-off show to kick up dust while the Beyhive waits for the large run? And Queen Bey was born in Houston, lower than three hours up the road from Austin.
Enough prognosticating, we’ll discover in six days who’s got COTA counting its losses six months before the event. Any money on Nickelback?
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