Garth Brooks wants to stay in Salt Lake City a little longer.
Garth Brooks adds third Salt Lake City show
On Friday morning, tickets for the country superstar’s two shows at the Delta Center in October went on sale, with queues for both shows each surpassing 50,000 fans, according to a news release the venue shared with the Deseret News on Friday.
Just minutes into the sale, “the system indicated that all tickets had been claimed. Recognizing that the numbers did not add up, SeatGeek immediately began investigating and working to address the issue,” reads the news release. “The system remained operational throughout, and Brooks praised the Delta Center staff and SeatGeek’s team for handling the situation with care and professionalism.”
Now, “following overwhelming demand and an on sale disrupted by bot activity,” per the news release, Brooks has added a third show to his Salt Lake City stop.
In addition to his Oct. 9 and 10 shows at the Delta Center, the “Friends in Low Places” singer will now also be performing a matinee show on Sunday, Oct. 11. Tickets for the new show go on sale Sept. 22 at 10 a.m. MDT.
“The great state of Utah has ALWAYS been the place for Garth Brooks to play,” the singer shared on his Instagram page. “This just shows me how blessed I continue to be when I am around those people. ”I look forward to not only playing the two shows that sold today, but would love to get the chance to play more shows in Salt Lake.”
The last time Brooks played at the Delta Center — four back-to-back shows that concluded on Halloween night in 2015 — he set an attendance record at the arena. Eleven years later, Brooks’ shows remain the No. 1 attended event in Delta Center history, with Nate Bargatze’s recent comedy tour holding the second spot, as the Deseret News reported.
When did Garth Brooks last perform in Utah?
It’s been about four years since Brooks last played in Utah.
During a 2021 summer show at Salt Lake City’s Rice-Eccles Stadium — which sold more than 50,000 tickets in less than 30 minutes — Brooks told the crowd it was “the fastest sellout we’ve ever had, or Ticketmaster’s ever had,” as the Deseret News reported.
After performing for 80 minutes, the singer then dropped a bombshell, telling the crowd he would return to the venue before his stadium tour concluded so he could give more fans a chance to see the show.
He then kept the crowd going with his “housekeeping” segment, responding to fans’ posters and performing requests. Through it all, he managed to create one-of-a-kind moments for individual fans in a stadium of 50,000-plus people, as the Deseret News wrote in a review.
“It’s one of the greatest times I’ve ever had,” he said of that show, per Deseret News.
And then, as promised, he came back to the stadium 11 months later — and did two shows.
“People showed up and they showed up twice,” Brooks told reporters at Rice-Eccles Stadium ahead of the first of two shows. “If that is not enough for you to look in the mirror and go ... ‘I don’t know why it’s happening but thank you,’ then I don’t know what needs to hit you in the head to ... realize how lucky you are.”
Brooks also shared that after three decades of touring, rather than becoming “old hat,” these moments of playing for a crowd have become “more and more precious” as he’s gotten older.
Overall, he said, he hits the stage every single time with the same goal: For fans to leave the show “loving each other more than when they came.”
“We’re probably the most divided we’ve ever been, but out there ... you’ll see people that if they were in a room together probably wouldn’t be getting along, but they don’t know each other, they just know that they love to sing,” he said at the time. “And there they are with their arms around each other … singing ‘Friends in Low Places’ or ‘Two Pina Coladas.’
“If we could focus on more of what we have in common than what scares us,” he continued. “For the last 20 years, I don’t know why, we focus more on what scares us than what we can potentially do together. That’s kind of where we’re at. And my prayer to God is that we just don’t kill each other before we figure that out, and get back to the great things that we could be doing if we did unite.”