Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z: Heart of the City Tour Adds Third Madison Square Garden Show

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Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z: Heart of the City Tour Adds Third Madison Square Garden
Show

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 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
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


    ABOUT LIVE NATION:
    Live Nation is the future of the music business.  With the most live
concerts, music venues and festivals in the world and the most comprehensive
concert search engine on the web, Live Nation is revolutionizing the music
industry: onstage and online.  Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Live
Nation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol
"LYV."   Additional information about the company can be found at
www.livenation.com under the "About Us" section.
SOURCE  Heart of the City Tour

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

 

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