Country star Blake Shelton will return to the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Aug. 25.
Tickets are priced from $207 to $77 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix or by phone at 800-514-3849.
Shelton, 47, scored a No. 1 hit with his 2001 debut single, “Austin.” For the next decade, he was a mainstay on country radio and returned to the top of the charts with “The Baby,” “Some Beach,” “Home,” “She Wouldn’t Be Gone,” “Hillbilly Bone,” “All About Tonight” and “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking.”
But Shelton’s career really took off after he signed on to be a coach on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2011. In the decade that followed, nearly every one of his singles landed in the Top 5, including “Honey Bee,” “Sure Be Cool If You Did,” “Boys ‘Round Here,” “God’s Country,” “Nobody but You” and “Happy Anywhere.” The latter two were duets with his third wife, Gwen Stefani.
Gwen Stefani, left, and Blake Shelton perform during Country Radio Seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
After spending 23 seasons on “The Voice” — and watching nine of his chosen vocalists win — Shelton retired from the show, with Stefani making her seventh coaching appearance in the 24th season.
Shelton opened for Rascal Flatts at the Grandstand in 2005 and returned to headline in 2012. More recently, he played the 2022 Twin Cities Summer Jam and St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center in February 2023. His singles over the past three years — “Come Back as a Country Boy,” “No Body” and another Stefani duet “Purple Irises” — failed to replicate his past chart successes.
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