Pop star Ariana Grande to bring Sweetener tour to Phoenix in May
Oct 25, 2018, 2:34 PM
FILE - In this June 2, 2018 file photo, Ariana Grande performs at Wango Tango in Los Angeles. Grande will perform at the funeral for Aretha Franklin on Friday, Aug. 31. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
PHOENIX — Pop star and actress Ariana Grande will go on tour for the first time since her concert in England was attacked by terrorists, and she will bring the international tour to Phoenix next year.
Grande announced in a tweet on Wednesday that she would embark on her Sweetener World Tour on March 18. She will perform at Talking Stick Resort in Phoenix on May 14.
ɹnoʇ plɹoʍ ɹǝuǝʇǝǝʍS @americanexpress presale 11/1-11/3 pic.twitter.com/E8JTqBPChl
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) October 25, 2018
Tickets for the Phoenix show and all the other performances will go on presale from Nov. 1 to 3, just in time for the holidays.
The tour, which has 42 stops, will kick off at Times Union Center in Albany, New York, and will wrap up at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on June 14.
It will be the first time Grande will go on tour since terrorists detonated a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb as attendees were leaving her concert at the Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017.
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Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, who was identified as 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi, and 139 more were wounded. More than half of those wounded were children.
Grande has been in the news lately for her short-lived engagement with comedian Pete Davidson. Rapper Mac Miller, Grande’s longtime boyfriend, died in September of an apparent drug overdose.
