{"id":275818,"date":"2026-08-31T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:08:08","slug":"rush-adds-pittsburgh-to-their-fifty-something-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275818\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush adds Pittsburgh to their Fifty Something Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian rock legends Rush are bringing their reunion tour to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will visit PPG Paints Arena on Nov. 15 as a part of new shows added to their Fifty Something Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The classic lineup of Rush \u2014 bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart \u2014 had last performed together in 2015, and Peart died from brain cancer in 2020. Touring with the band now are drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist Loren Gold.<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which kicked off June 7 in Los Angeles and runs through April 10, 2027, in Finland, added three other dates besides Pittsburgh: Oct. 1 in Houston, Oct. 21 in St. Louis and Oct. 23 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we initially booked this tour we didn\u2019t know how well we would hold up to the rigours of the road \u2014 so we played it safe with lots of days off to recover \u2014 but life is nothing if not surprising and we\u2019re doing fine and having a blast \u2014 so why not try to hit a few more of the cities that have always treated us so well,\u201d Lee and Lifeson said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the newly added shows go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/rush-fifty-something-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-11-15-2026\/event\/1600651BD53CDA85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ticketmaster.com<\/a>. Presales include Citi card members (10 a.m. Tuesday), artist (10 a.m. Wednesday), and Live Nation and venue (10 a.m. Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>Rush\u2019s last performance in Pittsburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/rush\/2012\/consol-energy-center-pittsburgh-pa-bddad3a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">came on Sept. 11, 2012<\/a>, at Consol Energy Center (now PPG Paints Arena) on their Clockwork Angels tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian rock legends Rush are bringing their reunion tour to Pittsburgh. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-275818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}