In Your Face, Nashville: Sturgill Simpson Announces New Tour Dates and You’re Not VIP

While the chances of hearing a Sturgill Simpson song on country radio are slim to none—and slim just left Nashville—you can catch country radio’s most underrepresented prodigy on tour in 2017.

Sturgill announced more than 20 tour dates today (Feb. 10), with stops at some pretty cool venues, including Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall and Austin’s 360 Amphitheater.

Surprisingly Sturgill’s tour does not make a stop in Nashville, but he will play in just about every other major city within spitting distance to Music City, including Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville and St. Louis. Are you happy, Nashville? You’re now in the Sturgill Simpson Bermuda Triangle Music City Quadrilateral.

Sturgill Simpson 2017 Tour Dates
March 4—Okeechobee, FL—Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival
May 6—Orange Beach, AL—The Wharf Amphitheater
July 7—Charlotte, NC—Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
July 8—Cary, NC—Koka Booth Amphitheatre
July 14—Atlanta, GA—Fox Theatre
July 15—Louisville, KY—Forecastle Festival
July 16—Birmingham, AL—Sloss Music & Arts Festival
July 30—Niigata, Japan—Fuji Rock Festival
Sept. 7—Sugar Land, TX—Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
Sept. 8—Grand Prairie, TX—Verizon Theatre
Sept. 9—Austin, TX—Austin360 Amphitheater
Sept. 14—New York, NY—Radio City Music Hall
Sept. 15—Columbia, MD—Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sept. 16—Boston, MA—Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Sept.19—Detroit, MI—Fox Theatre
Sept. 21—St. Louis, MO—Fox Theatre
Sept. 22—Chicago, IL—Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Sept. 25—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sept. 29—Portland, OR—Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Sept. 30—Redmond, WA—Marymoor Amphitheater
Oct. 6—Los Angeles, CA—Greek Theatre

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