NASHVILLE, Tenn.(Top40 Charts/ Hersey PR) -
Brad Paisley will keep his 2007 tour, Hershey's Presents Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour, on the road through November as additional dates were announced today. Special guests
Rodney Atkins and
Taylor Swift will open the second leg dates beginning
September 6 and wrapping November 17 with a total of 75 dates in the year 2007. GAC will be the official media sponsor for the tour through 2007.
Paisley's 2006 TIME WELL WASTED TOUR played to over 750,000 fans and traveled over a million miles. According to Pollstar the tour ended the year No 4 in total attendance for country tours, while the January 6 edition of Billboard names Paisley among five hot tour headliners (all genres) for 2007.
Rodney Atkins has recently seen two singles peak at No 1 on the singles chart, 'Watching You' and 'If You're Going Through Hell,' the latter reigning as the most played song on country radio in 2006. His album If You're Going Through Hell was also recently certified platinum.
Taylor Swift is one of country music's hottest-rising starlets. She has enjoyed tremendous success since first bursting onto the scene in 2004 with her chart-topping debut single, "Tim McGraw". Since that time, her self-titled album has been certified Gold by the RIAA and she is currently nominated for an ACM award for 'Best New Female Vocalist'. She has previously toured with hot acts Rascal Flatts and George Strait . The 17-year-old rising star has also made a splash in the national media spotlight with appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and FOX's Fox & Friends and The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet.
Bonfires & Amplifiers 2nd leg Tour dates:
9-6 London , ONT John Labatt Center
9-7 Hamilton Copps Coliseum
9-8 Ottawa Scotiabank Place
9-10 Halifax Metro Center
9-11 St. John Harbour Station
9-12 Portland ME Cumberland Co Civic Center
9-14 Cleveland OH Blossom Music Center
9-15 Pittsburgh PA Post-Gazette Pavilion
9-20 Atlanta GA HiFi Buys
9-21 Tampa FL Ford Amphitheater
9-22 West Palm Beach FL Sound Advice Amphitheater
10-5 Cincinnati OH Riverbend Music Center
10-6 Washington DC Nissan Pavilion
10-7 Virginia Beach , VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
10-11 Grand Forks , ND Ralph Engelstad Arena
10-12 Winnipeg MTS Center
10-13 Saskatoon SK Credit Union Center
10-17 Edmonton AB Rexall Place
10-18 Lethbridge ENMAX Center
10-19 Calgary AB Pengrowth Saddledome
10-21 Missoula MT Adams Center
11-1 Bossier City LA Century Tel Center
11-2 Houston TX The Woodlands Pavilion
11-3 San Antonio TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
11-8 Fayetteville NC Crown Coliseum
11-9 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum
11-10 Roanoke VA Roanoke Civic Center
11-15 Lincoln NE Pershing Center
11-16 Rockford IL MetroCentre
11-17 Grand Rapids MI Van Andel Arena
Log on to www.bradpaisley.com for on-sale and up to information on cities and dates for the Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour.