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John Summit to Embark on North American Arena Tour This Fall

The 20 date CTRL ESCAPE tour launches this October in Champaign, Ill., where Summit went to college.

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John Summit

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John Summit will embark on the biggest tour of his career this fall when he plays a 20-date arena run that begins on Oct. 1. This CTRL ESCAPE tour follows his album of the same name, released on April 15.

The tour will start in Champaign, Ill., notably the city where Summit studied accounting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the theme of him leaving this life as an accountant informing much of his latest album.


From here, the tour crosses the border for three dates in Canada before returning to the U.S. for a run down the East Coast, across the south (with two dates in his adopted town of Miami) before going back north for a pair of dates in his actual hometown of Chicago before shows in Philadelphia and Brooklyn and a tour-closing performance in Oakland, Calif.

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He plays three Canadian dates, in Montreal on Oct. 23, Hamilton on Oct. 25 and Toronto on Oct. 25.

The tour adds momentum to an already characteristically busy year for Summit, with the producer playing a residency at [UNVRS] in Ibiza this summer, headlining Lollapalooza in late July and putting on the second edition of his Experts Only festival on Randall’s Island in New York this Sept. 19-20.

Summit has teased the arena tour a bit on his social media, recently sharing a rendering of an arena setup. An arena tour of this scale is a rare feat for an electronic artist and follows Summit’s previous arena shows at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

See the complete tour schedule below.


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