{"id":36927,"date":"2025-11-17T21:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36927\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:43:08","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-announces-bigger-weirder-2026-tour-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36927\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Al Yankovic Announces Bigger &#038; Weirder 2026 Tour | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of his record-breaking 2025 tour, comedy music legend \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic will return to the road in 2026 with the next chapter of his BIGGER &amp; WEIRDER Tour. The tour will stop at Erie Insurance Arena on July 8, 2026. Tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. and can be found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vividseats.com\/weird-al-yankovic-tickets\/performer\/930?utm_source=msn&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=458355342&amp;utm_term=Weird%20Al%20Yankovic%20tour%202026&amp;adgroup=1181976782348297&amp;target=kwd-73874011203168:loc-190&amp;loc_i=&amp;loc_p=102720&amp;msclkid=e28d91f5e82d1d454c44f8ee78b444ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yankovic\u2019s 2025 tour drew over 500,000 fans, selling out major venues like Madison Square Garden and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The 2026 run will expand to 90 cities across North America, featuring his biggest hits, fan favorites, a giant video wall, multiple costume changes, and an eight-piece band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did 75 shows this year, and the fans weren\u2019t sick of us yet,\u201d Yankovic joked. \u201cSo, we\u2019re just going to keep on touring until they are!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known as the best-selling comedy recording artist in history, Yankovic has earned five Grammy Awards, 17 nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His parodies of hits by artists like Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Taylor Swift have made him a pop culture icon for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the success of his record-breaking 2025 tour, comedy music legend \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic will return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22747,22746,136,138,22748,137,22749,22745],"class_list":["post-36927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-2026-tour","tag-bigger-weirder-tour","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-insurance-arena","tag-erie-news","tag-ticket-sales","tag-weird-al-yankovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927","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=36927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}