Carrie Underwood Stages Biggest Tour of Career with “The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round”
- andrewwendowski
- Feb 3, 2016
- 3 min read
Nashville, TN – (February 3, 2016) – Carrie Underwood’s “Storyteller Tour –Stories in the Round” launched on Saturday in Jacksonville, FL, and continued Monday in Atlanta, GA, both to sold-out 360-degree crowds. The tour’s 17 semi-trucks and 8 buses rolled into Greensboro, NC for the third show tonight to continue its highly-successful 2016 run. Already fans and critics are raving about her stand-out performances coupled with the dramatic in-the-round stage production.
The show “is a no-expense-spared spectacle that highlights her approachable beauty, her roar of a voice and a substantive set of songs that have commanded the charts since her ‘American Idol’ victory a long decade ago,” expressed the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “The in-the-round setup commissioned by Underwood allows for unparalleled vantage points – and even those in the arena’s highest peaks could watch one of four oval video screens situated above each side of the stage.” And says the Florida Times-Union, “Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show.”
Underwood, known for her vocal prowess and the ability to create stellar performance moments in any realm, concert, television, or recordings, spent much of 2015 working with her team to create her most spectacular concert tour to date. Barry Lather (Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Usher, Michael Jackson) is the tour’s Creative Director and Butch Allen (Metallica, The Eagles, Eric Church, No Doubt) is Production & Lighting Designer. “The Storyteller Tour” required many weeks of technical planning and rehearsing to program lighting cues, automation, and special effects, followed by numerous full-on performance rehearsals with Underwood and her band.
“The Storyteller Tour” features a staple in any Underwood production, wardrobe changes. She worked with Emmy-winning costume designer Marina Toybina to create varying costume options for each of the five acts so fans will see a variety of outfits every night during her 100+ minute set. Marina also designed the wardrobe for Underwood’s 2012/2013 “Blown Away Tour.”
The massive stage has seven elevator lifts and spans over 150 feet across the arena floor, with a main center stage expanse of 48 feet in diameter that rotates 360-degrees. The center lift can raise to 18 feet high. There are four satellite stages and three concentric LED rings that hover in the air and move throughout the show for visual moments and effects, plus four larger oval screens that provide video for fans on all sides of the arena. A very unique spotlight technology, the Black Track system, follows Carrie where ever she travels across the massive stage with aide by special beacons that have been built into her wardrobe.
Underwood will take a short break from the tour following this weekend to perform on the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, where the seven-time GRAMMY winner is nominated this year for “Little Toy Guns” in the Best Country Solo Performance category. The GRAMMY Awards® will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
The Storyteller Tour:
Feb-3Greensboro, NCGreensboro Coliseum
Feb-5Louisville, KYKFC Yum! Center
Feb-17Pittsburgh, PACONSOL Energy Center
Feb-20Hampton, VAHampton Coliseum
Feb-22Philadelphia, PAWells Fargo Center
Feb-23Boston, MATD Garden
Feb-25Washington, DCVerizon Center
Mar-4Stockholm, SwedenC2C/Hovet*
Mar-5Oslo, NorwayC2C/Spektrum*
Mar-11Glasgow, ScotlandC2C/ Clyde Auditorium*
Mar-12London, EnglandC2C/ O2 Arena*
Mar-13Dublin, IrelandC2C/ 3 Arena*
Mar-17Youngstown, OHCovelli Centre
Mar-19Allentown, PAPPL Center
Mar-22Auburn Hills, MIThe Palace of Auburn Hills
Mar-24St. Louis, MOChaifetz Arena
Mar-26Lincoln, NEPinnacle Bank Arena
Mar-29Colorado Springs, COBroadmoor World Arena
Mar-30Denver, COPepsi Center
Apr-1Las Vegas, NVACM Party for a Cause Festival*
Apr-5Fresno, CASave Mart Center
Apr-8Reno, NVReno Events Center
Apr-10Oakland, CAOracle Arena
Apr-12Stockton, CAStockton Arena
Apr-14Phoenix, AZTalking Stick Resort Arena
Apr-16Las Cruces, NMPan American Center
Apr-18San Antonio, TXAT&T Center
Apr-19Houston, TXToyota Center
Apr-22Bossier City, LACenturyLink Center
Apr-24Lafayette, LACajundome
Apr-27Tulsa, OKBOK Center
Apr-28-Little Rock, AR
Verizon Arena
Apr-30Indio, CAStagecoach*
May-3Madison, WIKohl Center
May-5Green Bay, WIResch Center
May-7Grand Forks, NDRalph Engelstad Arena
May-10Casper, WYCasper Events Center
May-12Billings, MTRimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
May-15Kansas City, MOSprint Center
May-17Rosemont, ILAllstate Arena
May-18Cleveland, OHQuicken Loans Arena
May-24Buffalo, NYFirst Niagara Center
May-27Ottawa, ONCanadian Tire Centre
May-28Toronto, ONAir Canada Centre
May-30London, ONBudweiser Gardens
*festival date
“Storyteller Tour- Stories in the Round,” in association with ALMAY, and Carnival in support of Operation Homefront, is promoted by AEG in North America and includes special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers.
