Tickets for Joel’s performance will go on sale Nov. 20 on Live Nation.
Joel’s 1973 chart topping hit,“Piano Man,” launched a decades-spanning career that has made him the third best-selling solo performing artist in the United States. He’s also sold more than 150 million records worldwide and is a six-time Grammy Award winner. He received his first two Grammy awards in 1979 for Record of the Year and Single of the Year for “Just the Way You Are.”
Today’s concert announcement comes a day after U.S. Bank Arena announced that Justin Bieber would be returning to Cincinnati on June 24 as part of his 58-city Purpose World Tour. Tickets for that concert go on sale at noon Nov. 20.
Other big concerts coming to U.S. Bank Arena in 2016 include Maroon 5 on Sept. 29 and Selena Gomez on June 5.
Tickets for Maroon 5 go on sale via Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. Fans can purchase tickets now at www.livenation.com for Gomez’s show.
The arena, along with Miami University, will also host the 2017 NCAA Hockey Regional tournament.
U.S. Bank Arena owners and operators unveiled a nearly $200 million renovation plan in July for the riverfront facility that first opened as Riverfront Coliseum in 1975. Those plans included adding 1,750 club seats; a new level consisting of 40 to 60 private suites near the arena’s stage; and a completely reimagined exterior, WCPO reported.