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Red Hot Chili Peppers announce 2023 North American stadium tour, including San Diego concert at Snapdragon

Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea, Petco Park, July 27, 2022
Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to be the first rock act to perform at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium. The band’s bassist, Flea, is shown above at the band’s July 27, 2022, San Diego concert at Petco Park.
(Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to be the first rock act to perform at Snapdragon Stadium. Opening acts, which vary in each city, include Iggy Pop and The Roots.

By George Varga
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Red Hot Chili Peppers will follow up its 40-date 2022 North American stadium tour with a 10-date 2023 North American stadium tour.

It will include a performance at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium, which opened last September and is home to the SDSU Aztecs football team. The Peppers’ show will be the first concert at the new stadium, following the postponement of Jimmy Buffett’s Oct. 22 date at Snapdragon. Buffett’s concert has yet to be rescheduled.

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The Peppers will kick off the North American leg of the band’s 2023 world tour with a March 29 concert at Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium. The tour concludes with a May 25 date at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. The band then heads to Europe for 13 additional concerts.

The Peppers’ May 12 concert at Snapdragon Stadium is the only California date on the tour and will also feature The Mars Volta and Thundercat.

Tickets for the San Diego show are priced from $59.50 to $249.50, plus service fees. By comparison, tickets for the Peppers’ concert in July at San Diego’s much larger Petco Park were priced from $49.50 to $199.50, plus service charges.

Tickets for all of the band’s 2023 North American tour dates will go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time at redhotchilipeppers.com.

A fan club pre-sale will begin at noon local time Tuesday.

A Live Nation/Ticketmaster pre-sale will begin at 10 a.m. local time Thursday, as will a Spotify pre-sale.

Red Hot Chili Peppers 2023 tour dates

Wednesday, March 29: Vancouver, BC Place Stadium, with City & Colour and King Princess

Saturday, April 1: Las Vegas, Allegiant Stadium, St. Vincent and King Princess

Thursday, April 6: Fargo, Fargo Dome, with The Strokes and King Princess

Saturday, April 8: Minneapolis, US Bank Stadium, with The Strokes and King Princess

Friday, April 14: Syracuse, JMA Wireless Dome, with The Strokes and King Princess

Friday, May 12: San Diego, Snapdragon Stadium, with The Mars Volta and Thundercat

Sunday, May 14: Phoenix, State Farm Stadium, with The Strokes and Thundercat

Wednesday, May 17: San Antonio, Alamodome, with The Strokes and Thundercat

Friday, May 19: Gulf Shores, Hangout Music Festival

Thursday, May 25: Houston, Minute Maid Park, with The Strokes and Thundercat

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”

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