When The National Concert Tour?
When is the National Concert Tour?
The general public and music fans in particular are keen to find out when more artists will be embarking on national tours. Despite live concert cancellations and postponements caused by the COVID-19 pandemic since early 2020, many are optimistic about a large-scale tour in 2023.
Experts believe that next year will witness a significant increase in national concert tours, with most artists planning to perform from spring to summer. This correlates with health professionals’ predictions that the coronavirus will become endemic in many regions of the world throughout 2022, meaning that mass events will be safe by next year.
Still, it has to be understood that every artist has his/her timetable for the tours, according to his/her wishes and goals. But some general trends for national touring in 2023 are already emerging: But some general trends for national touring in 2023 are already emerging:
Top Tours Predicted to Restart in Spring 2023
Numerous main acts that paused headline concerts in 2020 and 2021 are planning revival concerts from April through June. Fans will probably be able to look forward to newly announced nationwide tours of such artists as Harry Styles, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Elton John, and Pink during this period.
These spring 2023 headlining tours will enable artists to fine-tune their live performances before the larger summer shows. For fans, it creates anticipation and raises expectations for the team going into the most important period of the year.
Summer 2023 Touring Season Should Be Packed
And while the summer months of July and August of next year are said to be packed with large concert touring. There has been a buildup of entertainment demand as fans have been starved of live performances for more than two years, and artists have lined up major tours to stage shows in sheds, theaters, arenas, and stadiums across the country.
The touring lineups of summer 2023 could be as colossal as the years before 2020 that recorded some of the all-time high live entertainment statistics in 2017-2019. There will be many multi-night tours across the country featuring artists such as Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, and all other pre, post, and filler headline event acts.
Many stadium performers like Guns N’ Roses, for instance, have also outlined touring schedules through to the end of the year 2023. This suggests that both managers and promoters are planning to do longer tours than usual next year in an apparent bid to recover for lost time.
An Analysis of the Booking Patterns suggests an upcoming busy schedule in the falling season.
For years the touring season has been recognized to ease up in September and October due to the end of summer shed and amphitheater dates. However, given that many artists are moving the dates that they had to postpone from 2022, fall 2023 is filling up just as quickly.
Where musicians are already routing further legs around festival gigs or looking to push tours into the latter part of the year expect the 2023 autumn to be significantly busier than the usual end-of-tour season lull.
Some of the acts like Morgan Wallen, Eric Church, and Imagine Dragons had postponed many of their arena shows and have been scheduling new fall dates to make up for the lost revenue. Other legends such as the Eagles and John Fogerty also exhibit the intention to tour up to the next fall.
In What Ways Will Health Issues Affect Future Traveling?
Still, there are still some concerns regarding the further pandemic’s influence on live music touring in 2023 despite the general enthusiasm regarding live music’s revival.
Promoters and booking agents remain vigilant watching the trends in global health as they organize for the tours. There might be some last-minute changes in the routing because of the chance of new COVID variants or localized surges.
Nevertheless, national concert tours could be less affected by disruption than it has been for 2+ years. High vaccination rates, improved medical readiness, the removal of restrictions, and excited fans will help to drive a strong touring market.
However, basic health guidelines such as entry measures and other safety measures will always be dictated by the prevailing conditions of each market when the shows are rolled out.
What about rescheduled dates from tours in 2022?
The majority of musicians have postponed concerts that were planned as part of the 2022 tours because of COVID-19 cases or other effects of the pandemic. Fans who have been privileged to secure tickets to these postponed concerts are now wondering when these concerts will be made up.
The good news is that the majority of the postponed events for 2022 have already been rescheduled for early 2023. For example, Morgan Wallen, a country star, has rescheduled all his canceled fall performances into January through April. Rockers Foo Fighters also postponed all the shows that were called off from the end of 2022 till the beginning of 2023 due to the death of Taylor Hawkins.
Some artists who had to cancel their 2022 tour – The Who, New Kids on the Block, John Mayer – have rearranged for full tours across the country for 2023, not just a few scattered dates. This will facilitate the proper flow of logistics and marketing as soon as the concerts are resumed.
In general, if you had tickets to a show that was postponed due to the pandemic, you should continue to monitor the artist’s website and your inbox for more information about the makeup date. Being able to plan so aggressively, artists seek to give fans the information that postponed broadcasts will be performed in 2023.
What Cities, therefore, have the Highest Frequency of Concerts?
Which metropolitan areas experience the highest number of tour stops per calendar year when national concert tours are widespread again next year?
Per industry data, these six major cities host the most concert events annually as nearly every major tour routes through them on cross-country journeys: Per industry data, these six major cities tend to host the most concert events annually as nearly every major tour routes through them on cross-country journeys:
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New York City including but not limited to the five boroughs.
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Los Angeles (including Hollywood, Inglewood, and Long Beach)
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Chicago
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Atlanta
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Dallas/Fort Worth
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Houston
New York and Los Angeles dominate the list of most toured markets thanks to their large population, famous venues, and the immense amount of business that takes place within the music industry. Then Atlanta Chicago Dallas and Houston form the next largest group of tour destinations in the national live segment.
Apart from large cities, destinations with many amphitheaters, such as Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, and Boston are also a favorite of large concert tours every summer.
And second-tier cities such as Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Detroit, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington DC consistently attract 100+ tour stops annually and across all genres as well.
Will Spring-Summer ’23 Have Adequate Tour Routing Possibilities?
The number of artists who are predicted to go back to touring or start it next April through August gives some ergonomics issues regarding routing and bookings.
With so many musicians planning their concerts for 2023, is there enough time and space in the calendar and venues to accommodate all those announcing it? Or will intense competition force some artists to lack the ability to tour on their preferred schedules?
Fortunately, there are some insiders who think that the system has enough ‘flex capacity’ to cope with aggressive scheduling for spring/summer tours. Between amphitheaters, arenas, stadiums, theaters, and clubs, there are myriad facility sizes available across the country for most acts interested in booking shows in the summer months.
Furthermore, the availability of new indoor spaces such as the Kia Forum in Los Angeles provides routes with more location options. Temporary pop-up concert sites also remain popular to manage extra demand, too.
However, artists in the higher category of live drawing such as Swift and Bieber may be limited by the availability of venues in certain areas during May through August. This may mean that their teams have to look for ways of adding second nights or other satellite stages in some of the heavily saturated markets.
In conclusion, promoters expect busy but not overcrowded touring seasons in 2023 spring and summer because of the accumulated demand for live performances. Collectively, the high booking volumes mean that there is enough touring machinery available nationally to have a record-breaking year on the road.
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