Kid Rock to play Detroit's Little Caesars Arena, his first show at the arena in 6 years

Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press
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Kid Rock is headed home to Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena, the venue he helped launch in 2017.

The Michigan-born rap-rocker will play LCA on July 14, joined by fellow Michigan act Grand Funk Railroad. It’s part of a four-city arena run that will include dates in Austin (June 23 with Chris Janson), Fort Worth (June 24 with Marcus King) and Nashville (July 1 with Travis Tritt).

Tickets for all four Kid Rock concerts will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. A fan club presale will start Tuesday.

This summer’s shows come a year after Rock indicated he was ready to scale back his touring pace.

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In this photo taken Feb. 22, 2015, singer Kid Rock performs a concert before the Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla.
In this photo taken Feb. 22, 2015, singer Kid Rock performs a concert before the Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla.

When Rock blanketed the U.S. on his Bad Reputation Tour in 2022, he told audiences it was likely his final major outing. At 51, he’d been performing for three decades, and between chronic neck pain and a pair of young grandchildren back in Tennessee, he was eager to wind things down.

Still, he didn’t rule out future concert dates altogether.

“You never know what the future holds,” he told a Pine Knob crowd last September. “But if we do a few events a year, it’d be a pretty safe bet that something will be in Michigan.”

Kid Rock’s show at LCA is his first there since he opened the arena with a six-night stand in September 2017. The run was a resounding box-office success, selling out and drawing nearly 87,000 concertgoers, though it was met with picketing from activists unhappy with the selection of Rock, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump.

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The new arena included a Kid Rock-themed restaurant sporting his name and memorabilia, but that licensing deal was severed in 2019 amid ongoing controversy surrounding Rock’s public persona. The space now houses an eatery called the Mixing Board.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Kid Rock 2023 tour: Rocker going to four cities, including Detroit