LOS ANGELES, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour has sold out all four of its New York area appearances, including Uniondale's Nassau Coliseum, East Rutherford's Izod Center and two Madison Square Garden performances. All four previously announced New York shows sold out in less than an hour after going on sale. As a result a third Madison Square Garden appearance, scheduled for May 2nd, has just been added to the hotly anticipated North American tour.
Tickets for the new date will go on sale beginning this Friday, March 7th at 10:00 a.m., and are available through http://www.livenation.com/. Citi cardmembers will also have access to purchase presale tickets through Citi's Private Pass(R) Program, available to all Citi cardmembers at http://www.privatepass.citi.com/ beginning today.
Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour is produced by Live Nation and Haymon Events and will kick off on March 22nd at Miami's American Airlines Arena.
MARY J. BLIGE & JAY-Z: HEART OF THE CITY TOUR
DATE CITY VENUE
March 22 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
March 24 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
March 26 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
March 27 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
March 28 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
March 30 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
April 2 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
April 3 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
April 5 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
April 6 Washington, DC Verizon Center
April 8 Atlanta, GA Phillips Arena
April 9 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
April 10 Houston, TX Toyota Center
April 12 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
April 15 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
April 16 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
April 19 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Arena
April 20 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
April 25 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
April 26 Chicago, IL United Center
April 27 Chicago, IL United Center
May 2 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
May 6 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
May 7 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
* New dates announced today
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Source: Heart of the City Tour
CONTACT: Tresa Sanders of Interscope Geffen A&M, +1-212-841-8272,
tresa.sanders@umusic.com, for MARY J. BLIGE; or Jana Fleishman of Island Def
Jam Music Group, +1-212-445-3298, jana.fleishman@umusic.com, for JAY-Z; or
John Vlautin of LIVE NATION, +1-310-867-7127, johnvlautin@livenation.com, for
Heart of the City Tour
Web site: http://www.livenation.com/
