Jon Pardi Announces World Tour, Cool Openers
Jon Pardi is calling it the “Mr. Saturday Night World Tour,” but let’s just go ahead an label it the “mainstream country that doesn’t suck and actually sounds country” tour. That’s been Jon Pardi’s calling card for a while now, and he even kicked it up a notch with his recent album Mr. Saturday Night. Now he’ll be touring it all over the country and world come late summer into the fall.
Even better, he’s taking along some pretty kick ass opening acts that also happen to be signed to major labels, but also are surprisingly good and country, most notably Midland and Randall King, along with Jackson Dean and Ella Langley also opening dates. In fact most dates have at least three openers, so you will get plenty of music for your buck.
What’s also interesting about this tour is it finds Jon Pardi and his openers playing arenas. Heretofore, Pardi’s tours have been mostly resigned to amphitheaters, like his 2022 “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” tour. Pardi has also spent years as an opening act, playing ahead of folks like Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert. This means that Pardi is yet another actual country artist that has reached the arena level.
While many of the big mainstream awards have eluded Jon Pardi so far, he did start off in 2017 with New Artist of the Year wins from both the CMAs and ACMs. Graduating to arenas means he’s finally seeing the fruits of his labors, and it once again speaks to how true country music is reaching new heights in the rise of appeal in music and artists that are real.
Presale for the fan club starts Tuesday (3-21). General sale starts Friday March 24th at 10 am local time at jonpardi.com
Tour Dates:
Friday, August 25 – Belfast, Northern Ireland – Ulster Hall~
Sunday, August 27 – Lutterworth, U.K. – The Long Road Festival
Monday, August 28 – Glasgow, U.K. – Old Fruitmarket~
Tuesday, August 29 – Manchester, U.K. – O2 Ritz~
Thursday, August 31 – Bristol, U.K. – O2 Academy~
Friday, September 1 – London, U.K. – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire~
Sunday, September 3 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg^~
Monday, September 4 – Hamburg, Germany – Gruenspan^~
Wednesday, September 6 – Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller~
Thursday, September 7 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Strand^~
Thursday, September 28 – Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Civic Coliseum*
Friday, September 29 – Pikeville, KY – Appalachian Wireless Arena*
Saturday, September 30 – Savannah, GA – Enmarket Arena*
Thursday, October 5 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood*
Friday, October 6 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena*
Saturday, October 7 – Jacksonville, FL – Dailys Place*
Thursday, October 19 – Brookings, SD – Swiftel Center*
Friday, October 20 – Omaha, NE – Baxter Arena*
Saturday, October 21 – St. Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena*
Thursday, October 26 – Eugene, OR – Matthew Knight Arena*
Friday, October 27 – Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre*
Saturday, October 28 – Everett, WA – Angel Of The Winds Arena*
Thursday, November 2 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Arena+
Friday, November 3 – Missoula, MT – Adams Center#
Saturday, November 4 – Billings, MT – First Interstate Arena at MetraPark#
Thursday, November 16 – London, ON – Budweiser Gardens#
Friday, November 17 – Oshawa, ON – Tribute Communities Centre#
Saturday, November 18 – Hershey, PA – GIANT Center+
Thursday, November 30 – Independence, MO – Cable Dahmer Arena+
Friday, December 1 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center+
Saturday, December 2 – Fort Worth, TX – DICKIES ARENA (Support to be announced)
Friday, December 8 – Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center at Fresno State#
Saturday, December 9 – Las Vegas, NV – Michelob ULTRA Arena#
* Midland, Ella Langley, DJ Highmax
+ Randall King, Ella Langley, DJ Highmax
# Jackson Dean, Ella Langley, DJ Highmax
~ Ella Langley Only Support
March 21, 2023 @ 8:41 am
What ever happened with Arnold? This would’ve been his thing and he’d have done commented 20 times. Miss those days
March 21, 2023 @ 8:46 am
He’s now Charley Crockett’s Country Butter or something like that, and I’m sure he’ll be chiming in soon.
March 22, 2023 @ 6:01 am
I noticed he’s only playing arenas in the South or in the west coast. It’s a good start – but Jon’s weakest area will always be New England. If he can make it there, he can make it anywhere!!!
But it seems he’s avoiding that area
March 22, 2023 @ 5:56 am
Thanks man. I can’t believe I’m remembered and beloved on this site.
March 21, 2023 @ 8:43 am
That third opener is a DJ that will likely play in-between sets of the other two opener and middle acts.
Also, these arenas are 7-10k each. He’s not at 20k arenas just yet, but give it another year or two and he will!
March 21, 2023 @ 9:01 am
Serious push to make country music big in the UK and Ireland, and it may just be working. This year’s C2C lineup was kind of disappointing, but getting quality mainstream acts like Pardi over there to balance out the Thomas Rhetts is a very good thing. The supporting artists are the icing on the cake. Of course, the big overseas tour this year is Luke Combs and he’s bringing along some quality openers as well.
March 21, 2023 @ 10:43 am
Did the presale today, people were scooping up tix. Eveytime I tried to click on a section, tickets unavailable. I did manage to find some *affordable* decent seats.
March 21, 2023 @ 11:22 am
Jon Pardi isn’t bad but to me his music is as enjoyable as waking up at 2am in 2007 to the George Lopez show – not great, but the best option at that moment compared to what’s playing on PBS or NBC.
March 21, 2023 @ 11:45 am
Great to see another true country artist growing into larger venues. It’s interesting to hear radio country folks talk about going to see Stapleton in a 25k seat venue and be blown away by the show or maybe by the lack of a show. No fireworks shooting out of the drum kit. No swinging from a trapeze. Just five incredibly talented musicians playing like they would at a bar just with bigger speakers. Maybe what we’ve all known for a long time is starting to catch on with the masses? Just play good damn country music and skip all the bs and people will come.
And for the record I like that Jackson Dean kid a lot. Good to see him hooking up with Pardi. Definite upgrade from opening for Blake and will get a more receptive audience in front of him.
March 21, 2023 @ 1:38 pm
I really want to believe that John Pardi is authentic in being a traditionalist. I happened by his “Heartache Medication” song while radio surfing and thought it was a strange combination of Conway’s “Tight Fittin’ Jeans” and George Strait’s “Fool Hearted Memory” with autotuned singing and some electronic mixing. Overall it sounded like the most country song in today’s mainstream radio scape, but only time will tell if I am correct in my observation.
March 21, 2023 @ 2:21 pm
I like pardi but for some reason I don’t love his music as much as maybe I should. Still would be a good show but not coming near me.
March 21, 2023 @ 2:31 pm
Overrated and underwhelming.
March 21, 2023 @ 9:19 pm
Should’ve saved this comment for something Morgan Wallen related.
March 22, 2023 @ 6:04 am
: D No, i placed this comment exactly where it needed to go.
March 21, 2023 @ 3:05 pm
I saw him last summer with Lainey Wilson and Hailey Whittiers opening. Great show and he even threw in a Strait “Cross My Heart” cover at the end.
March 21, 2023 @ 5:53 pm
Who is DJ HiMax? I know I can Google but it’s been a long day and I think I will put a record on and get the grill fired up.
March 21, 2023 @ 8:54 pm
That’s Diplo’s new secret identity.
March 22, 2023 @ 12:30 am
Always fun when they travel over the pond, see you in Stockholm!
March 22, 2023 @ 8:40 pm
Interesting that his North American shows are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. He must fly home Sunday-Wednesday?
March 23, 2023 @ 5:01 am
I think Jon Pardi is an awesome and amazing singer and songwriter. I absolutely love his song, Your Heart or Mine. I seen some comments about him being overrated and that’s so not true. Jon Pardi has worked hard to get where he’s at today and deserve to be called Country’s greatest. I wish Jon Pardi would come to Roanoke Virginia…