{"id":141047,"date":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:24:11","slug":"lionel-richie-and-earth-wind-fire-bring-2026-tour-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/141047\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire bring 2026 tour to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two legendary music acts \u2014 singer\/songwriter Lionel Richie and the band Earth, Wind & Fire \u2014 will co-headline their second tour in three years in 2026, which will include a stop at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio on Tuesday, July 28.<\/p>\n

Kicking off on June 24 in St. Paul, Minnesota, the 26-city tour will travel around the U.S. and Canada through mid-August.<\/p>\n

In addition to San Antonio, there will be performances in Dallas on July 29 and Austin on August 14, which is final scheduled concert on the tour.<\/p>\n

Both Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire are among the highest-selling acts in music history, with each selling around or over 100 million albums in their long careers.<\/p>\n

Richie has released 10 solo albums in his career, most recently Tuskegee in 2012. Prior to his solo career, he released an additional nine albums as lead singer of The Commodores.<\/p>\n

Since 2018, Richie has also served as one of three judges on the rebooted version of American Idol. Alongside fellow judges Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan, he will begin season 24 of the ABC singing competition on January 26.<\/p>\n

Earth, Wind & Fire has gone through multiple members over its 57-year existence, although original member Verdine White is still active at 74 years old.<\/p>\n

The various incarnations of the band have released 22 albums, most recently Holiday in 2014.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the tour will be available starting with Citi presale<\/a> on Tuesday, January 27 at 10 am, running through January 29 at 10 pm.<\/p>\n

Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, January 30 at 10 am at LiveNation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LIONEL RICHIE AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE 2026 TOUR DATES<\/p>\n

Wed Jun 24 \u2013 St. Paul, MN \u2013 Grand Casino ArenaFri Jun 26 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 United CenterSat Jun 27 \u2013 Columbus, OH \u2013 Schottenstein CenterTue Jun 30 \u2013 Pittsburgh, PA \u2013 PPG Paints ArenaWed Jul 01 \u2013 Detroit, MI \u2013 Little Caesars ArenaSat Jul 04 \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 Scotiabank ArenaSun Jul 05 \u2013 Montreal, QC \u2013 Bell CentreWed Jul 08 \u2013 Boston, MA \u2013 TD GardenFri Jul 10 \u2013 Hartford, CT \u2013 PeoplesBank ArenaSat Jul 11 \u2013 New York, NY \u2013 Madison Square GardenTue Jul 14 \u2013 Belmont Park, NY \u2013 UBS ArenaThu Jul 16 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 Xfinity Mobile ArenaSat Jul 18 \u2013 Greensboro, NC \u2013 First Horizon ColiseumSun Jul 19 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 State Farm ArenaWed Jul 22 \u2013 Tampa, FL \u2013 Benchmark International ArenaFri Jul 24 \u2013 Hollywood, FL \u2013 Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & CasinoSat Jul 25 \u2013 Orlando, FL \u2013 Kia CenterTue Jul 28 \u2013 San Antonio, TX \u2013 Frost Bank CenterWed Jul 29 \u2013 Dallas, TX \u2013 American Airlines CenterFri Jul 31 \u2013 Denver, CO \u2013 Ball ArenaMon Aug 03 \u2013 Seattle, WA \u2013 Climate Pledge ArenaThu Aug 06 \u2013 San Francisco, CA \u2013 Chase CenterSat Aug 08 \u2013 Palm Desert, CA \u2013 Acrisure ArenaSun Aug 09 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Intuit DomeTues Aug 11 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ \u2013 Mortgage Matchup CenterFri Aug 14 \u2013 Austin, TX \u2013 Moody Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two legendary music acts \u2014 singer\/songwriter Lionel Richie and the band Earth, Wind & Fire \u2014 will co-headline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[575,59445,64,1067,278,3502,82,84,83,11685],"class_list":{"0":"post-141047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-concerts","9":"tag-disco","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-frost-bank-center","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-rb","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","16":"tag-san-antonio-news","17":"tag-soul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}