DIERKS BENTLEY ANNOUNCES HIS 2017 WHAT THE HELL TOUR!

Artists: Dierks Bentley; Jon Pardi

Dierks Bentley has announced his 2017 What the Hell Tour, and he’s taking along his buddies Jon Pardi and Cole Swindell.

Dierks will take the first leg to 23 cities through April in both the U.S. and Canada, making a notable stop its first weekend with a career-first for him – headlining Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena January 21st.

Pre-sale tickets for select dates including Nashville go on sale tomorrow (10/4), with the first public on-sales scheduled for this Friday, Oct. 7 at www.dierks.com and www.livenation.com.

“Coming off the electricity and emotion of two nights at Red Rocks last week, it felt right to just go ahead and announce plans for next year and keep this thing rolling,” said Dierks. “There’s a song on my album called ‘What The Hell Did I Say’ and it seemed like an appropriate title for a tour with Cole and Pardi. I have a feeling I’ll be asking myself that question the morning after many of our shows and late night hangs because you really don’t know what will happen when the three of us get together. There has been a lot of drunk calls and texts between all of us over the last year trying to make this tour happen, and I’m excited we were able to pull it off.”

The What the Hell Tour is set to kick off in Dayton, Ohio January 19th.

Dierks, who recently hit No. 1 with “Different For Girls,” has four CMA nominations, including Male Vocalist, Album of the Year for Black, Musical Event for “Different for Girls” with Elle King and Music Video of the Year for “Somewhere on a Beach.”

The 50th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 2nd at 8pm ET/PT on ABC.

In the meantime, Dierks has extended his Somewhere on a Beach Tour 2016 with dates through October 29th with opening acts Randy Houser and Drake White. Cam finished up her run with Dierks a couple of weeks ago.

2017 WHAT THE HELL WORLD TOUR Cities:

Dayton, OH

Louisville, KY

Nashville, TN

Hamilton, ON

Oshawa, ON

Ottawa, ON

London, ON

Winnipeg, MB

Saskatoon, SK

Calgary, AB

Dawson Creek, BC

Edmonton, AB

Penticton, BC

Vancouver, BC

Cedar Rapids, IA

Sioux Falls, SD

Columbus, GA

Tupelo, MS

Knoxville, TN

Billings, MT

Rapid City, SD

Fresno, CA

Reno, NV
*Support may vary, check local listings

Dierks Bentley (wrapping up 2016 tour) OC: …summer vacation. :31
“It’s always sad. It kinda feels like high school coming to an end when you’ve got a great group of people like I have. It starts within my own camp. The guys in my band and my crew, everyone really goes out there wanting the summer to feel great, not just for the audience, but also for us. It’s our summer on the road…it’s our summer too, so we wanna have a lot of fun. We work really hard to create a fun atmosphere backstage for us and all of our crew. And then obviously, the guys that tour with us – having Randy [Houser] out there and Cam and Tucker [Beathard] – want to really make it feel like summer break, summer vacation.”

Dierks Bentley (wrapping up 2016 tour) 2 OC: …like crazy. :51
“I think when I first stepped on the road this summer I realized it’s like, gosh, this is like summer camp for us. It’s so fun getting to see the same people day in and day out and having stories to talk about the next morning from the night before of the crazy stuff that happened on stage or if there’s a little party that went on after the show. It’s just been so fun. And for me to have the songs stacking up the way they have been and the hits piling up, and to have new material to go out there and sing every summer and some summers have multiple songs come out while we’re on the road, makes it exciting, keeps it fresh for us; it feels like we’re really building something great. It’ll be sad when it’s over. We’re rockin’ so hard, it’ll probably come to an end when it needs to, ‘cause it’s gotta recoup a little bit to get ready for 2017. But, we’ll miss Randy and miss Cam and Tucker like crazy.”