The last of the Twin Cities' summer stadium concerts with an asterisk next to it, the Guns N' Roses tour stop at Target Field on July 13 has been canceled, but a new date has been booked indoors at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Sept. 21.
Fans still holding tickets for the Target Field show — already postponed from 2020 — should receive an email from Ticketmaster with instructions on attending the Xcel Center gig or requesting a refund. New tickets for the Sept. 21 are due to go on sale Friday at noon, with Nightrain fanclub pre-sale options starting today.
Wolfgang Van Halen's new band Mammoth has been added as the opening act on the tour.
Minnesota fans still dead-set on seeing GNR before Labor Day have the option of attending the Aug. 11 date at the FargoDome in (duh) Fargo, now the fifth date on the U.S. tour that begins July 31 in Hershey, Penn. GNR is also playing Milwaukee's shorefront amphitheater for the postponed Summerfest just before the St. Paul date on Sept. 18.
If you lost track after "Chinese Democracy" finally come out in 2008, Axl Rose is back touring with original GNR members Slash and Duff McKagan after two decades apart. Their 2017 reunion date in Minneapolis was very well-received; at least among the fans who could make out which songs were being played amid U.S. Bank Stadium's notoriously troublesome acoustics.
While the Vikings stadium saw the last of its summer concerts bumped last week to 2022 (Rammstein), Target Field was able to hang onto its Aug. 23 stop on the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy.
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