The Eagles will headline a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA on Saturday, June 12th with special guests the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban. The Eagles – Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit – will perform hits from their more than 35-year career, such as «Hotel California,» «Desperado,» «Life In The Fast Lane,» «Lyin’ Eyes,» «Take It To The Limit,» «One Of These Nights,» «Heartache Tonight,» and more. The Eagles last performed in Boston, Massachusetts in 2008. The Dixie Chicks – Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines – will hit the stage for the first time in four years, performing songs from all three of their albums including smash hits, «Wide Open Spaces,» «Goodbye Earl,» and «Not Ready to Make Nice.» Urban’s career has produced some of the industry’s best known and most loved songs – 11 #1s. «Days Go By,» «Sweet Thing,» Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me,» «You’ll Think of Me,» «Better Life,» as well as Billboard’s Country Song of the Decade, «Somebody Like You,» will highlight Urban’s performance.American Express® Cardmembers will have early access to tickets beginning Monday, March 22nd at 10:00 AM through Sunday, March 28th at 10:00 PM. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning at 10:00 AM Monday, March 29, 2010 and can be purchased at www.livenation.com, by calling 800-745-3000 or at the Gillette Stadium Box Office. Dates and times subject to change without notice. The concert utilizes All-In ticketing, which allows fans to purchase tickets without any added fees and streamlines the ticket buying process.
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Keith Urban is a three-time Grammy Award winner who has sold nearly 15 million albums worldwide. He is the only artist to win the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award for Best New Artist, as well as the coveted Entertainer of the Year Award. He’s won five Academy of Country Music Awards, and in just this past year, Urban added an American Music Award and People’s Choice Award to his mantle. His most recent, Defying Gravity, debuted at #1 on both Billboard’s Top 200 (all genre) and Country Album Chart and produced his 10th («Sweet Thing») and 11th («Only You Can Love Me This Way») #1 singles. Urban’s reputation as an elite songwriter, musician, vocalist and virtuoso guitarist is no more evident than onstage.
The Dixie Chicks are the biggest-selling female group in history, having sold more than 30 million albums. Their first album, «Wide Open Spaces,» is the highest-selling album in history by a country music group and is among the top-100 selling albums of all time. They have won thirteen Grammy Awards and more than four dozen other major awards. Each of their three albums has won the Grammy for Best Country Album of the Year. They are one of a mere handful of acts with multiple albums achieving «diamond» status (meaning sales over 10 million copies) – both WIDE OPEN SPACES (1998) and FLY (1999) hit that stratospheric landmark. Their most recent album, Taking The Long Way debuted at #