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Sabrina Carpenter Announces Dates for 2024 Short N’ Sweet North American Arena Tour

The singer will also fill-in for Tyler, The Creator at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco following the rapper's announcement that he's dropped off the bill.

Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter

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Sabrina Carpenter announced the dates for her upcoming fall 2024 North American headlining arena tour on Thursday (June 20), with the Short n’ Sweet outing slated to kick off on Sept. 23 in Columbus, Ohio followed by Sept. 25 at Toronto's Scotiabank Arena. The 29-date tour will travel across the U.S. and Canada from September through mid-November, with stops in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, Vancouver, Seattle, San Diego and Phoenix before winding down on Nov. 15 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Support acts on the tour include Amaarae, Griff and Declan McKenna, with the singer partnering with PLUS1 to launch the Sabrina Carpenter Fund to support the well-being of people and animals to provide support for mental health, animal welfare and the LGBTQ+ community on the swing.


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Presales for the tour will kick off on Monday (June 24) with the Cash App presale at 10 a.m. local time followed by the Team Sabrina presale on Tuesday (June 25) at 10 a.m. local time. The general onsale will launch on June 28 at 10 a.m. local time. The singer has also teamed up with Spotify to create the first-ever Top Listener Fan Pit at all the shows, as well as the official Sabrina On Tour playlist curated by the singer, featuring her ow songs, as well as influential tracks by Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Shania Twain, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Joni Mitchell, Jungle and more.

The Spotify Fans First Front Row presale — with tix for the Listener Pit on the floor — will launch on June 26 at 1 p.m. ET, with a very limited quantity of presale tickets available for the singer’s biggest listeners. The same day at 2 p.m. E.T. access to the Spotify Fans First Presale will give a wider range of top listeners access to presale tickets throughout the venue.

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“My fans are the best, and I’m excited to share Spotify’s exclusive ticket access with them as a thank you,” Carpenter said in a statement. “For the first time, Spotify created a Top Listener Fan Pit at the front of every North American show, and we’re offering tickets to my top listeners. You’ve all been there for every step of my journey, and I can’t wait to celebrate with you on tour.”

The tour will support Carpenter’s upcoming sixth full-length studio album, Short n’ Sweet, which is due out on August 23. To date, Carpenter has released two singles from the collection, the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Please Please Please” and her No. 3 Hot 100 hit “Espresso.” Carpenter will kick off her road trip on August 10 when she headlines San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival for the first time on a bill that also includes main stage headliners The Killers and Sturgill Simpson; Carpenter replaces Tyler, the Creator, who announced on Thursday that he was dropping off the bill.

Check out the Sabrina Carpenter Short n’ Sweet 2024 North American tour dates below:

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This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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