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Billy Joel pumps up tour schedule
Billy Joel , who has been unveiling tour dates in drips and drabs, has opened the floodgates, relatively speaking.
The iconic singer/songwriter has mapped a batch of new April shows set in Pittsburgh; Columbus, OH; Montreal; and New Orleans, and has also booked a late-May, four-night stand at Connecticut's Mohegan Sun. Also new to his itinerary is a July 10 performance at Pennsylvania's Hersheypark Stadium.
The new dates augment a loose-knit schedule that previously had comprised one-off dates in March and April, as well as a July two-night stand at New York City's Shea Stadium. Details are shown below.
Joel is currently in the midst of a handful of shows on the left side of the country, which began earlier this week in Anaheim, CA.
Joel's newly added engagement at Hersheypark Stadium will be his first concert at the venue since a sold-out concert on Aug. 15, 1990, during his "Storm Front" tour, according to Pennsylvania newspaper The Patriot-News.
Joel booked his first show at Hersheypark in 1979, and tickets sold out in two hours, according to The Patriot-News, which reports that the concert was ultimately scrapped due to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, during which Hersheypark was used as an evacuation shelter.
