{"id":30082,"date":"2022-06-17T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=30082"},"modified":"2022-06-17T05:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:58:51","slug":"keith-urban-kicks-off-tour-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/06\/keith-urban-kicks-off-tour-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Kicks Off Tour Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a two-year wait due to Covid, Keith Urban kicks off the North American leg of The Speed of Now World Tour on Friday, June 17th in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He will be joined by special guest Ingrid Andress on the 50-date run which will include stops in Toronto at Budweiser Stage on July 8th and 9th, and in Detroit at Pine Knob on August 26th.<\/p>\n<p>Keith released his The Speed Of Now Part 1 album in 2020 and hasn&#8217;t really had a chance to play much of the newer music.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also champing at the bit to play his earlier hits, which have all been waiting to be brought back to life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Playing live is the premier opportunity for me to show those songs thread together and make sense together much more than just sort of albums alone, and that&#8217;s the thing I missed the most over the last two years about playing live was not being able to bring these songs into a context, and I feel like those songs were just sitting dormant in road cases for two years waiting to be brought out and brought to life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ce3nYGjlZvb\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a two-year wait due to Covid, Keith Urban kicks off the North American leg of The Speed of Now World Tour.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[108,112,3435,111,225],"class_list":["post-30082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-detroit","tag-keith-urban","tag-the-speed-of-now-world-tour","tag-toronto","tag-tour"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 01:27:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/06\/keith-urban-kicks-off-tour-tonight\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30083,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082\/revisions\/30083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}