After selling over 2.5 million tickets worldwide in 2007 and garnering numerous industry accolades including “Major Tour of The Year” (Pollstar), “Tour of the Year” and “Top Selling Tour of 2007” (Billboard Magazine), The Police have announced their final 30 North American tour dates which include a stop at Nationwide Arena on Sunday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, Feb. 23 at 10 a.m. at the Nationwide Arena Ticket Office and through Ticketmaster.
In 1977, The Police stormed the music scene by blending reggae, punk, jazz and rock. Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers created an unmistakably nuanced sound filled with evocative melodies, infectious lyrics and rock and roll swagger. The Police dominated the top of the charts and radio airwaves worldwide with five No. 1 albums and a succession of top 10 hit singles. In the six years they were together, The Police became one of the world's most famous bands, earning six Grammy Awards and countless fans around the globe.
Elvis Costello and The Imposters will join The Police for the North American portion of this year’s tour. Also spanning a career of 30 years, Elvis Costello and The Attractions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. He has received a number of Grammy nominations for his recent albums When I Was Cruel, The Delivery Man and for his 2006 collaboration with Allen Toussaint, The River in Reverse. His songs have been recorded by a great number of artists with a list as diverse as his range of musical styles including: No Doubt, Solomon Burke, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.
The Police tour is proud to support Unitus, a worldwide leader at scaling innovative solutions to global poverty. Unitus envisions a world where microfinance is available to every individual; a world where the poor are empowered to work their way out of poverty and build a brighter future. Unitus provides capital investments and capacity-building consulting, thus empowering these organizations to scale and provide life-changing financial services to reach more of the world's working poor. For further information, visit www.unitus.com.
Tickets are $227, $92, and $52 (includes facility fee). Purchasers of the $227 tickets are limited to four while the ticket limit for all other prices is eight. Tickets are available at the Nationwide Arena Ticket Office, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone at 614-431-3600.