Tickets to free show were only available through country radio
Garth Brooks closes out 2021 with a big time jam at Club Rodeo in San Jose on Thursday night (Dec 16th). Seven hundred contest winners were in attendance with the only way in through local country radio station, 95.3 KRTY San Jose Hot Country.
Brooks went live on Facebook before taking the stage as he greeted his band.
Brooks began his Dive Bar Tour concert series in the summer of 2019 at Joe’s on Weed Street in Chicago. Other stops included Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, CA; Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, TX; The Barn in Sanford, FL; The Dusty Armadillo in Rootstown, OH; Prospectors in Mt. Laurel, NJ; The Westerner in Salt Lake City; and most recently, Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City which received more than 2.4 million entries.
The Dive Bar Tour was inspired by his single, “Dive Bar” with Blake Shelton, which is on Brooks’ most recent album, Fun. The Dive Bar Tour will continue around the country through 2022.
Despite canceling the remaining 2021 dates of his stadium tour due to a resurgence of rising COVID cases towards the end of summer, Brooks says the Dive Bar shows, as other smaller ones, can continue due to easier enforcement of vaccination status for a few hundred fans instead of tens of thousands that flock to his sell out stadium shows.
As of this writing, Brooks will resume his Stadium Tour in March in Orlando with stops currently announced for Fayetteville, AR and Baton Rouge, LA — which he sold 102k tickets, marking one of the top two largest crowds of all time for a North American stadium show. Seventeen US dates are scheduled for 2022 before wrapping with a five night sold out stand at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland in September. On Thanksgiving, Brooks sold over 400,000 tickets for the Stadium Tour finale, a feat done by the country star himself in 2014 to start the Comeback Tour in Dublin, but due to unforeseen circumstances, all five shows were cancelled.
Last month, Brooks wrapped a three night solo mini residency at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House and Ryman Auditorium. All three shows were not sold to capacity but sold out within minutes with tens of thousands left in the queue. In February, he will perform Garth Brooks: The ONE Man Show, a two night engagement at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas. Brooks teases the series of shows in both cities could be a follow up to the Stadium Tour when it wraps in fall 2022.
