Rod Stewart and Cheap Trick have announced a 19-city joint summer trek. The tour, which will hit both arenas and sheds, kicks off on July 21st in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio at Blossom Music Center and winds down on September 5th in Tinley Park, Illinois at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre.
Rod Stewart just became the oldest male performer to top the British albums charts with his new set, You're In My Heart: Rod Stewart With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A while back he explained that he's never once considered giving up what he does: “You never outgrow hits, I mean, it's always a big thrill to ya. I'm a committed musician. I love it. I love makin' music, I really love gettin' up and singin' for people. I see the smiling faces and you go home and you think you've sent them all home happy.”
Rick Nielsen told us that Cheap Trick is just one of those bands that was so unhip, they actually became cool: “What we did was the total antithesis of everything, of what was going on. We didn't wanna be like anybody else, but we didn't know what we wanted to be. So, it's like, I was always kind of a jerk and a class clown — so why change into being some charming person? We were being ourselves. At the time, there were so many bands that they tried to look like their mothers and y'know, get their hair done with the same hairspray as their mother's had. And everybody wanted to be the lead singer or the guitar player — look at me — I was never gonna be Jimmy Page or, y'know. . . It was all about the music.”
Rod Stewart's next U.S. show is set for February 23rd at Hollywood, Florida's Hard Rock Live.
Cheap Trick kicks off its next string of shows on February 4th in Concord, New Hampshire at the Capitol Center for the Arts.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Rod Stewart / Cheap Trick tour dates (subject to change):
July 21 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
July 24 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
July 25 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 29 – Saratoga Springs, NY – SPAC (Rod Stewart only)
July 31 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
August 1 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
August 5 – Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
August 8 – Atlantic City, NJ – Mark G Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (Rod Stewart only)
August 9 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
August 11 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
August 14 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
August 15 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
August 19 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
August 21 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
August 22 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
August 26 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
August 29 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
August 30 – Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman
September 2 – Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
September 4 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
September 5 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre