For the first time in nearly a decade, Williams-Brice Stadium is set to host a concert again, and this one comes with two of the biggest names in R&B.
Chris Brown and Usher will bring “The R&B Tour” to Columbia on Oct. 29, according to an announcement Monday. The concert will land on a Thursday, so it won’t collide with South Carolina’s football schedule.
The Gamecocks are home against Tennessee on Oct. 24, then head to Oklahoma on Oct. 31, and return to Williams-Brice for Texas A&M on Nov. 7.
Presale sign-ups are open until Tuesday at 10 p.m. Presale tickets go on sale Thursday, Aug. 20, and the general public can buy tickets starting Monday, Aug.
- The start time for the show has not been set.
USC said in a news release Monday that the concert typically runs about three hours.
Williams-Brice has not hosted a concert since 2018, when Beyoncé and Jay-Z brought their “On the Run II” tour to Columbia. Before that, Kenny Chesney played the stadium in 2013 with his “No Shoes Nation” tour after a stop there in 2008 for Poets & Pirates, the show during which Chesney famously injured his foot.
The stadium’s concert history stretches back further than that, with many of its biggest shows coming in the 1990s and 2000s. Hootie & the Blowfish, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, U2, Metallica and Guns & Roses all performed there, including Columbia’s own Hootie & the Blowfish.
If the Beyoncé and Jay-Z show is any guide, the field may need a full re-sod once this October concert is over.
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