Country star Brad Paisley will be making a stop at Chattanooga on his upcoming "Time Well Wasted Tour."
He will be accompanied by Sara Evans and Atlanta-based Sugarland in the concert at McKenzie Arena on Nov. 17.
Tickets are not yet on sale.
The tour will visit more than 30 markets nationwide and will launch on Sept. 23 at Portland, Oregon’s Rose Garden.
The tour will include performances in major cities across the country, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The tour coincides with the Aug. 16 release of Paisley’s latest album, Time Well Wasted.
Paisley, known as a stellar guitarist, songwriter and performer, has added animator to his resume and is world premiering an original animated short announcing the tour on CMT.com and www.bradpaisley.com. Currently available to view on the websites, the three minute piece, created by Paisley, will feature animated characters of Paisley, Sara Evans and Sugarland.
Since his debut in 1999, five-time CMA award-winning star Brad Paisley has established himself as one of country’s finest entertainers. By the close of 2004, Paisley had accomplished three career milestones: 1) Mud On The Tires, became Double-Platinum certified by the RIAA for over two million units shipped; 2) Paisley was ranked among Billboard’s 2004 Top 10 best-sellers with his Mud On The Tires disc; and, 3) the 32-year-old performer celebrated over 6 million career units sold of his three-album catalog. This multiple Grammy, ACM and CMA nominated artist’s outstanding performance style and stellar songwriting have also earned him the proud distinction of being the Grand Ole Opry’s youngest cast member. His highly successful 2005 Mud & Suds tour played to sold-out crowds at each stop and he sold over 400,000 tickets in the first half of the year. Paisley’s newest release is due on August 16 – TIME WELL WASTED and includes his current hit single “Alcohol.”
RCA Nashville beauty Sara Evans adds a stunning vibrance to the country music landscape. As country radio’s most-played female artist of 2004, Sara also charted the year’s top airplay winner by a female artist with her multi-week No. 1 smash, “Suds in the Bucket.” Her current single, “ A Real Fine Place to Start,” is already a Top 10 preview of the passionate energy to come from her upcoming album, Real Fine Place. With the massive, Double-Platinum success of her Born to Fly disc setting the stage for 2003’s Platinum-certified Restless, Sara notched hits with “Perfect” (which she co-wrote), as well as “Suds in the Bucket,” with the video for each becoming a #1 favorite at CMT. Over the course of four albums, three No. 1 singles - including “Born to Fly” and “No Place That Far” - six Top Ten hits, and nearly four million units sold, the recent ACM nominee for Top Female Vocalist and Album of the Year has continued to craft songs that have established her as one of the genre’s most enjoyable stylists.
The trio Sugarland is relishing in sweet success with the Platinum certification of their debut album, Twice The Speed Of Life. All 11 tracks on the record were written by the trio of singer/songwriters, Jennifer Nettles, Kristen Hall and Kristian Bush. Their album has been in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for 9 consecutive weeks and in the Top 10 for 16 consecutive weeks. Sugarland was introduced to the country music world only one year ago. In that short amount of time their first two singles, “Baby Girl” and “Something More,” both reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In addition, “Baby Girl” is the highest-charting debut single by a country group in 14 years and the longest-running single in the history of the monitored chart era. Currently, the video for “Something More” is No. 1 on CMT’s Top Twenty Countdown.Sugarland’s high-energy live show is where they truly shine as one of country music’s most entertaining acts. One of Sugarland’s first LIVE national television performances was on the CMT Music Awards Pre-Party in April. Now they are coming to a city near you.
TOUR DATES AND LOCATIONS
September 23 Portland, OR Rose Garden
September 24 Puyallup, WA Western Washington Fair (Sara not at this show)
September 25 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena
September 29 Reno, NV Reno Events Center
September 30 Kelseyville, CA Konocti Harbor
October 1 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk
October 13 Green Bay, WI Resch Arena
October 14 Rockford, IL Metro Center
October 15 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
October 16 Grand Forks, ND Alerus Center
October 20 Champaigne, IL Assembly Hall
October 21 Lincoln, NE Pershing Auditorium
October 22 Topeka, KS Kansas Expocentre
October 23 Wichita, KS Kansas Coliseum
November 9 Orlando, FL TD Waterhouse Centre (Sara not at this show)
November 10 Estero, FL Germain Arena (Sara not at this show)
November 11 Gainesville, FL Stephen C. O’Connell Ctr. (Sara not at this show)
November 12 Tallahassee, FL Leon County CC (Sara not at this show)
November 17 Chattanooga, TN UTC McKenzie Arena
November 18 Winston Salem, NC LJVM-Joel Coliseum
November 19 Asheville, NC Asheville CC
December 1 Dayton, OH Nutter Center
December 2 Charleston, WV Charleston CC
December 3 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center at CSU
December 4 Evansville, IN Roberts Stadium
December 7 New York, NY Nokia Theatre
December 8 Wilkes Barre, PA Wachovia Arena
December 9 Lowell, MA Paul E. Tsongas Arena
December 10 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
December 11 Salem, VA Salem CC