{"id":2078201,"date":"2025-10-08T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2078201"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:52:10","slug":"rush-expands-its-50th-anniversary-tour-with-11-new-shows-see-the-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rush-expands-its-50th-anniversary-tour-with-11-new-shows-see-the-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Expands Its 50th Anniversary Tour With 11 New Shows: See the Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Due to overwhelming demand, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/rush\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rush;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rush<\/a> is adding 11 new dates to its limited-run Fifty Something tour, the band announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The iconic 23-date run celebrates the band\u2019s deep catalog of chart-topping tracks like \u201cWorking Man,\u201d \u201cThe Spirit of Radio,\u201d \u201cTom Sawyer,\u201d and \u201cYYZ.\u201d The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2013inducted and Grammy-nominated band has four No. 1 albums on Billboard\u2019s Top Rock Albums chart and seven tracks that have charted on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fifty Something 2026 tour\u2014which kicks off June 7 in Los Angeles\u2014features co-founders <strong>Geddy Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Lifeson<\/strong>. The duo will be joined by German drummer and producer <strong>Anika Nilles<\/strong>, who will be filling in for the late <strong>Neil Peart<\/strong>, who died in early 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s been over 10 years since Alex and I have performed the music of Rush alongside our fallen bandmate and friend Neil,\u201d Lee said in a press release announcing the tour, recalling their last performance together Aug. 1, 2015 in Los Angeles. \u201cAnd so, after all that has gone down since that last show, Alex and I have done some serious soul-searching and come to the decision that we f\u2013king miss it \u2014 and that it\u2019s time for a celebration of 50-something years of Rush music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new dates are being added in addition to those already booked for the tour. The newly announced stops include June 11 and 13 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; June 28 and 30 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas; July 20 and 22 at the United Center in Chicago; Aug. 1 and 3 at Madison Square Garden in New York; Aug. 11 and 13 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto; and Sept. 19 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans can participate in the artist presale beginning Oct. 9 \u2014 no code is required for shows sold on Ticketmaster, though a code is needed for the Cleveland concert being sold via SeatGeek. Pre-sale opens Monday, Oct. 13 at 12 p.m. local time in the U.S. and Canada, and Thursday, Oct. 16 at 12 p.m. local time in Mexico. General on-sale begins Friday, Oct. 17 at 12 p.m. local time in the U.S. and Canada, and 11 a.m. local time in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to overwhelming demand, Rush is adding 11 new dates to its limited-run Fifty Something tour, the band announced Wednesday. The iconic 23-date run celebrates the band\u2019s deep catalog of chart-topping tracks like \u201cWorking Man,\u201d \u201cThe Spirit of Radio,\u201d \u201cTom Sawyer,\u201d and \u201cYYZ.\u201d The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2013inducted and Grammy-nominated band has four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2078202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[348628,388689,29110,388575,22693,340343],"class_list":["post-2078201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alex-lifeson","tag-anika-nilles","tag-billboard","tag-geddy-lee","tag-los-angeles","tag-rush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rush-Expands-Its-50th-Anniversary-Tour-With-11-New-Shows.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078203,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078201\/revisions\/2078203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}