Yes, KISS really is coming to Crandon International Raceway, as ticket on-sale dates, more details are announced
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CRANDON – We finally have some details on the KISS concert happening in, of all places, the northwoods of Wisconsin this summer.
The legendary rockers announced June 1 they would be bringing the pyro and platform boots to Crandon International Raceway at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1 as one of three newly added stops on their End of the Road Tour. Since Crandon isn’t exactly on the way from Norway or Australia — the band's closest stops on either side of the Crandon date — the announcement had a lot of fans doing a double take.
What brings the band playing the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to Crandon, about 110 miles northwest of Green Bay? The efforts of the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe and its casinos.
“The Tribe helped secure the concert to welcome KISS to Wisconsin and to celebrate the upcoming opening of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s Rock & Brews restaurant inside of Potawatomi Casino Hotel in Milwaukee,” according to a release posted Sunday on the KISS website.
“The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe is honored to play a role in bringing KISS to Crandon, Rock & Brews to Milwaukee, and people together to enjoy this next era of entertainment in Wisconsin,” Forest County Potawatomi Community Tribal Chairman James Crawford said in a statement. “We cannot wait to welcome these two icons to the perfect backdrop of our northwoods, where we’ll show how Wisconsin truly loves to rock.”
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The concert falls during the 54th Polaris Crandon World Championships and 8th Red Bull Crandon World Cup Aug. 31 through Sept. 3 at the raceway, an event that was expected to draw as many as 65,000 people in 2022.
Tickets go on sale to the public June 19, earlier for the KISS Army
Tickets will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. June 19 at paysbig.com/events. Prices start at $75 for general admission standing. Seated sections are $200 and $225. Pit standing is $275.
KISS Army fan club members will have access beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. A local market/racer sale will begin Sunday.
If the End of the Road Tour is indeed the band’s last as it has been billed, the Crandon concert would be KISS’ final visit to Wisconsin. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer last played the state in May 2022 for a show at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater in Milwaukee.
New Rock & Brews restaurant will open at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino
While in Milwaukee, Simmons and Stanley also stopped by Potawatomi Hotel & Casino for the groundbreaking of its new Rock & Brews restaurant, a chain co-founded by the two men. The restaurant is part of a $100 million renovation to Potawatomi’s third floor and is tentatively scheduled to open in August.
Northern Lights Casino, the 600-seat theater inside Potawatomi that hosted national touring acts, closed in January after 22 years.
According to the release from KISS, the Crandon concert is part of “a summer concert series that will usher exciting entertainment into Wisconsin and into Potawatomi Casinos and Hotels.”
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Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @KendraMeinert.
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