Garth Brooks Extends Sold-Out Las Vegas Residency With 2024 Dates

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Garth Brooks, the country music legend, vows that no two shows in his new Las Vegas residency, which begins Thursday night, will be the same.

From the occasional special guest to a rotating cast of band members, Brooks promised fans in an interview hours before his inaugural show at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum that they would hear new songs for the first — and last — time at “Garth Brooks/Plus One.”

“We’re going to do stuff tonight that they’ll never hear again because it just didn’t work or we never finished it,” Brooks said with a grin to The Associated Press. “We’re going to get very personal tonight, so if you don’t want to get some mud on you, don’t come.” It’s going to become a little messy.”

Brooks also announced earlier that Caesars Palace had extended his residency with 18 more dates next year after tickets sold out rapidly when they went on sale in late 2022.

“When the 2023 shows went on sale, I felt extremely fortunate and blessed,” Brooks stated in a statement released early this morning. “Just the thought of doing this for another year makes me happier than words can express.”

Fans who missed out on tickets this year will have first access to the 2024 dates during a presale before they go on sale to the general public on May 31. The 2024 performances will take place between April and July.

Garth Brooks’ second Las Vegas residency follows a five-year tenure at the Wynn hotel-casino’s Encore Theatre.

Early 2000s construction of the Colosseum, which drew inspiration from ancient Roman architecture, served as the site of Celine Dion’s record-breaking residency. Some have regarded it as the home of the world’s best entertainers.

On Thursday, Brooks called it an honor to join a long list of musicians who have resided there, including Madonna, Cher, Mariah Carey, Elton John, and Adele. The theatre contains approximately 4,100 seats.

“A chance to play a residency is not something you pass up, especially in a place like this,” said the Country Music Hall of Fame singer and songwriter, who has two Grammys and is a seven-time Country Music Association “entertainer of the year.”

Brooks’ second Las Vegas residency follows a five-year tenure at the Wynn hotel-casino’s Encore Theatre, where he performed more than 180 events between 2009 and 2014.

According to him, the live band for “Garth Brooks/Plus One” distinguishes the new show from his Wynn residency, which included acoustic performances.

“This is pretty much dessert for an entertainer right here,” Brooks explained, “because you get to choose whatever song you want to sing and how you present it.”

Brooks recently finished his global Stadium Tour, which began in Indiana in 2018 and ended with a sold-out event in Dublin, Ireland, last September.

SOURCE – (AP)