It’s lastly right here. We now know the leisure lineup for this 12 months’s Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo live performance sequence, operating February 27 to March 17 at NRG Stadium.
RodeoHouston 2024’s roster is history-making, as a number of rap acts take the stage for the primary time ever in a single season. Houston rap icon Bun B will return for a remaining installment of his two groundbreaking H-City and Southern Takeover reveals. However this 12 months, rapper, Newstonian, and Rodeo Uncorked! Boss bidder 50 Cent will headline Black Heritage Day.
Different notable names embrace nation and popular culture star Blake Shelton, who leads off on Opening Day, and the Jonas Brothers, who final performed the rodeo greater than 10 years in the past. Nation followers can stay up for the acquainted faces Brad Paisley, Zac Brown, and Luke Bryan, who’ll mark his tenth rodeo present this 12 months.
Of the 20 performers, half are rodeo newcomers, together with 50 Cent and Nickelback. By the numbers, the 20 acts boast 56 Academy of Nation Music awards, 47 Nation Music Affiliation awards, 17 American Music Awards, and 15 GRAMMY Awards.
As talked about, singer and former The Voice host Blake Shelton serves because the headliner for Opening Day on Tuesday, February 27. Carly Pearce follows the subsequent day for Armed Forces Appreciation Day on Wednesday, February 28. Nation act For King + Nation take the stage the subsequent day on Thursday, February 29.
Then comes Black Heritage Day on Friday, March 1, with 50 Cent up in da membership and, let’s hope, poppin’ some bottles. Already a participant on the rodeo scene, 50 Cent made headlines final 12 months when his personal Champagne, Le Chemin du Roi Brut, was named Grand Champion Better of Present on the Rodeo Uncorked! competitors. Bidders threw $325,000 at his Champagne, a rodeo file.
HARDY, who’s making waves as a flexible nation and rock songwriter and performer, follows 50 on Saturday, March 2. Ivan Cornejo performs on Sunday, March 3, adopted by nation music prince Hank Williams, Jr., who’ll headline First Responders Day on Monday, March 4.
Folks-country artist Oliver Anthony and his superbly bushy beard take the stage on Tuesday, March 5; rapper Jelly Roll drops rhymes on Wednesday, March 6. Luke Bryan, making his tenth rodeo look, headlines Volunteer Appreciation Day on Thursday, March 7. EDM followers can catch the Jamaican-vibed trio Main Lazer the subsequent day on Friday, March 8.
Saturday, March 9 sees Lainey Wilson on stage, with favourite Los Tigres del Norte roaring on Go Tejano Day, Sunday, March 10. Southern rockers (and the satisfaction of Palestine, Texas) Whiskey Myers hit the stage on Monday, March 11.
In his hotly anticipated, doubtlessly remaining headlining rodeo present, hip-hop monarch and burger king Bun B will carry out on Tuesday, March 12, in what we are able to solely hope will observe the star-studded “Takeover” theme and spherical out a historic trilogy for Houston’s Trill OG.
“I wished individuals to see that rap and the rodeo may coexist within the room with nobody feeling awkward,” Bun B tells CultureMap. “I wished rap to be within the rodeo on an evening that did not say, ‘okay cowboys, keep residence.’ The rodeo has fought very arduous to be inclusive. So we fought very arduous to be inclusive as properly. We didn’t wish to block individuals out. That was by no means the case. What we wished to point out truly was that rap music might be essentially the most inclusive music tradition. And I believe we have achieved a fairly good job of that up to now and I believe this 12 months will show it much more, to some extent the place we’ll look again someday and we cannot even bear in mind exactly when there wasn’t rap on the rodeo. That is my dream.”
“We have confirmed that rap music may be part of the rodeo it doesn’t matter what night time you place it on,” he continues, “irrespective of who you current it to rap has room on the rodeo. The rodeo has made room for us and we’re doing proper by them.”
In fairly the pivot, the next day sees rockers Nickelback make their rodeo debut on Wednesday, March 13. Followers of the Zac Brown Band can catch them the subsequent day on Thursday, March 14.
Count on a legion of feminine followers to pack NRG on Thursday, March 15 because the Jonas Brothers allure the gang; the always-charming, rodeo fave Brad Paisley follows on Friday, March 16.
Eric Church, nation star singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur, will shut out the rodeo on Saturday, March 17.
Get tickets for this 12 months’s reveals on-line on Thursday, January 18 in two waves: 10 am and a couple of pm. Wave 1 covers February 27 to March 7 performances; Wave 2 tickets are for March 8-17 reveals. On-line ready rooms will open at 9:30 am for Wave 1 and 1:30 pm for Wave 2. Ready room prospects will likely be randomly chosen to enter the shop and buy tickets for the ten am and a couple of pm waves.
