Ke$ha coming Aug. 30 to Roy Wilkins

The "Tik Tok" hitmaker is calling her first major headlining trek the "Get $leazy Tour" -- and living up to the dollar signs with $49.50 tickets.

April 11, 2011 at 4:04PM
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Ke$ha (Margaret Andrews — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
AP photo/Dan Steinberg
AP photo/Dan Steinberg (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A concert that would've provided the Minnesota State Fair grandstand with some sorely needed youth and modern flavor, Ke$ha will instead be performing indoors during the fair across town at Roy Wilkins Auditorium on Aug. 30. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for $49.50. Wow, she wasn't kidding about that dollar sign in her name.

Calling her first major headlining trek the "Get $leazy Tour," the "Tik Tok" hitmaker and Gaga/Madonna wannabe is bringing along a couple of hip electronic hip-hop acts for openers: Los Angeles duo and Barry Gordy heirs LMFAO and Philadelphia's great raunch-n-roll rapper Spank Rock. Unlike Gaga's tour, this is probably not a show suitable for pre-teen girls and other sensitive ears.

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Chris Riemenschneider

Critic / Reporter

Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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