The Platinum Tour presented by Crystal Light is the fifth headlining concert tour by American country music singer Miranda Lambert. The tour was in support of her fifth studio album, Platinum (2014). The first leg of the tour began on July 10, 2014, in Fort Loramie, Ohio and ended on September 20, 2014, in Honolulu with there being thirty dates for that leg. Lambert kicked off the second leg called, the "Certified Platinum Tour" on January 15, 2015, in Evansville, Indiana. This leg will end on July 9, 2015, in Calgary, Alberta. The third leg called the "Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour" began on September 25, 2015, in Billings, Montana and ended on October 19, 2015. The tour ended on March 13, 2016. The 2015 legs of tour grossed $20 million.[1]

Platinum Tour
Tour by Miranda Lambert
Promotional poster for the tour
LocationNorth America
Associated albumPlatinum
Start dateJuly 10, 2014
End dateMarch 13, 2016
Legs6
No. of shows86 in North America
3 in Europe
89 Total
Miranda Lambert concert chronology

Background

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The tour was first announced in May 2014, and began on July 10, with the first leg ending on September 20. Lambert says, "Platinum represents a lifestyle for me. It's the color of my hair, wedding ring, my airstream trailer, so it's just a natural fit for the name of my new album and its why we decided to name the tour Platinum too."[2] A second leg was later added beginning on January 2, 2015 and will end on March 26. The shows in March 2016 are a part of the C2C: Country to Country festival and will be Lambert's first European shows.

Concert synopsis

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At the beginning of the show, there is "a montage paying homage to female pioneers", such as Sally Ride. Then on a black screen "a slogan in white text" and in capital letters appears saying, "Well-behaved women rarely make history." Before the show began, "there was a screening of the music video for "Somethin' Bad", her hit song with Carrie Underwood. Lambert starts the show with "Fastest Girl in Town" and closes with "Gunpowder & Lead".[3] During "Famous in a Small Town" the video screen shows "clips of Lambert as a child and as a young country star starting her career."[4]

On March 6, 2015, in Oklahoma City and on March, 7, in Wichita, Kansas, Lambert surprised the audience by bringing her husband, Blake Shelton up on stage to sing "God Gave Me You".[4][5]

Fan interaction

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Inspired by Lambert's song and video, "All Kinds of Kinds", Lambert wants to know what "kinds of kinds" the fans are. Concert goers can uploaded photos of themselves online for a chance for their photo to be shown on the big screen during the show.[6]

Opening acts

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Setlist

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[4][7]

  1. "Fastest Girl in Town"
  2. "Kerosene"
  3. "Platinum"
  4. "Little Red Wagon"
  5. "Baggage Claim"
  6. "Hard Staying Sober"
  7. "Over You"
  8. "All Kinds of Kinds"
  9. "Me and Charlie Talking"
  10. "Babies Makin' Babies"
  11. "Famous in a Small Town"
  12. "Mississippi Queen" (Mountain cover)
  13. "Mama's Broken Heart"
  14. "Bring Me Down"
  15. "Smokin' and Drinkin'"
  16. "The House That Built Me"
  17. "Automatic"
  18. "New Strings"
  19. "White Liar"
  20. "Gunpowder and Lead"
Encore
  1. "Gravity Is a Bitch"
  2. "Somethin' Bad"

Tour dates

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Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance Gross revenue
Platinum Tour – North America Leg 1[2][8]
July 10, 2014[A] Fort Loramie United States Country Concert at Hickory Hills Lake Neal McCoy
RaeLynn
5,600 / 5,600
July 11, 2014 Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa Amphitheater 6,290 / 6,290 $368,167
July 12, 2014 Rogers Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion 9,570 / 9,570 $504,815
July 17, 2014 [B] Monticello Great Jones County Fair 12,346 / 17,900
July 20, 2014 [C] Brooklyn Faster Horses Fest 12,113 / 13,000
July 25, 2014 Twin Lakes Country Thunder 15,436 / 32,000
August 1, 2014 [D] Sweet Home Oregon Jamboree 9,115 / 13,000
August 3, 2014 Camrose Canada Camrose Resiane Exhibition 5,090 / 5,090
August 8, 2014 Wheatland United States Sleep Train Amphitheatre Justin Moore
Thomas Rhett
16,453 / 18,584 $553,606
August 9, 2014 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre 17,650 / 22,000 $557,172
August 10, 2014 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 14,984 / 14,984 $579,802
August 15, 2014 Tinley Park First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 21,959 / 28,596 $686,417
August 16, 2014 Noblesville Klipsch Music Center 23,622 / 24,425 $642,897
August 17, 2014 Bonner Springs Cricket Wireless Amphitheater 11,531 / 18,000 $425,833
August 21, 2014 Raleigh Walnut Creek Amphitheatre 18,956 / 19,980 $496,851
August 22, 2014 Virginia Beach Farm Bureau Live 15,943 / 19,595 $472,665
August 23, 2014 Bristow Jiffy Lube Live 19,184 / 22,937 $616,095
August 29, 2014 Darien Center Darien Lake PAC 12,918 / 21,800 $477,333
August 30, 2014 Hartford Xfinity Theatre 13,346 / 24,087 $434,340
August 31, 2014 Bethel Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 15,919 / 15,919 $595,521
September 4, 2014 Toronto Canada Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 14,892 / 15,815 $583,842
September 5, 2014 Camden United States Susquehanna Bank Center 15,173 / 24,567 $481,134
September 6, 2014 Mansfield Xfinity Center 16,629 / 16,629 $658,549
September 11, 2014 Pensacola Pensacola Bay Center 7,896 / 8,751
September 12, 2014 Lafayette Cajundome 9,156 / 9,700
September 13, 2014 Corpus Christi American Bank Center 6,123 / 7,370
September 20, 2014 Honolulu Neal S. Blaisdell Center Neal McCoy 6,219 / 6,219 $338,835
Certified Platinum Tour – North America Leg 2
January 15, 2015 Evansville United States Ford Center Justin Moore
RaeLynn
Jukebox Mafia
January 16, 2015 Lexington Rupp Arena
January 17, 2015 Columbus Nationwide Arena
January 22, 2015 North Charleston North Charleston Coliseum
January 23, 2015 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena
January 24, 2015 Charleston Charleston Civic Center
February 12, 2015 Spokane Spokane Arena
February 13, 2015 Tacoma Tacoma Dome
February 14, 2015 Eugene Matthew Knight Arena
February 19, 2015 Toledo Huntington Center
February 20, 2015 Rockford BMO Harris Bank Center
February 21, 2015 Peoria Peoria Civic Center
February 26, 2015 Cape Girardeau Show Me Center RaeLynn
February 27, 2015 North Little Rock Verizon Arena
February 28, 2015 Tulsa BOK Center Justin Moore
RaeLynn
9,497 / 10,568 $520,640
March 5, 2015 Houston NRG Stadium
March 6, 2015 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena Justin Moore
Sunny Sweeney
March 7, 2015 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 9,908 / 10,342 $520,233
March 12, 2015 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,045 / 12,045 $522,435
March 14, 2015 Cedar Rapids U.S. Cellular Center
March 15, 2015 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 9,768 / 9,768 $490,533
March 19, 2015 Birmingham BJCC Justin Moore
Danielle Bradbery
March 20, 2015 Bossier City CenturyLink Center
March 21, 2015 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
March 26, 2015 Hershey Giant Center Justin Moore
Ashley Monroe
March 27, 2015 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 8,517 / 10,756 $540,175
March 28, 2015 New York City Madison Square Garden
April 9, 2015 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena
April 10, 2015 Worcester DCU Center 7,156 / 8,100 $367,189
April 11, 2015 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena Justin Moore 6,455 / 6,455 $484,665
April 25, 2015 [E] Indio Stagecoach Festival
May 23, 2015 Ridgeland C-Spire Lawn
May 24, 2015 Baton Rouge Tiger Stadium
June 23, 2015 Oshkosh Country USA
June 27, 2015 [F] Dover Dover International Speedway
June 28, 2015 [G] Dauphin Canada Dauphin's Countryfest
July 9, 2015 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
July 17, 2015 [H] Minot United States North Dakota State Fair
July 18, 2015 [I] Cheyenne Cheyenne Frontier Days
July 28, 2015 Nashville 3rd & Lindsley Bar & Grill
August 7, 2015 [J] Detroit Lakes WE Fest
September 3, 2015 Syracuse Lakeview Amphitheater
September 5, 2015[K] Panama City Beach Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam
September 19, 2015[L] Luckenbach Cause for the Paws
Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour – North America Leg 3
September 24, 2015 Missoula United States Adams Center RaeLynn
Clare Dunn
Courtney Cole
September 25, 2015 Billings Rimrock Auto Arena
September 26, 2015 Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
September 27, 2015 Mankato Verizon Wireless Center
October 2, 2015 Augusta James Brown Arena
October 3, 2015 Fayetteville Crown Coliseum
October 4, 2015 Roanoke Berglund Center
October 8, 2015 Huntsville Von Braun Center
October 9, 2015 Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena
October 10, 2015 Jonesboro ASU Convocation Center
October 15, 2015 La Crosse La Crosse Center
October 16, 2015 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
October 17, 2015 Moline iWireless Center
October 19, 2015[a] Calgary Canada Scotiabank Saddledome
March 7, 2016 Houston United States NRG Stadium
Europe
March 11, 2016 [M] London England The O2 Arena Dwight Yoakam
Thomas Rhett
March 12, 2016[M] Dublin Ireland 3Arena Dwight Yoakam
Thomas Rhett
Ashley Monroe
March 13, 2016[M] Glasgow Scotland Clyde Auditorium
Total 417,459 / 510,442 (82%) $12,919,744
Fairs, festivals and other performances
  • A This concerts was a part of the Country Concert at Hickory Hills Lake.
  • B This concert was a part of the Great Jones County Fair.
  • C This concert was a part of the Faster Horses Fest.
  • D This concert was a part of the Oregon Jamboree.
  • E This concert was a part of Stagecoach Festival.
  • F This concert was a part of Big Barrel Country Music Festival.
  • G This concert was a part of Dauphin's Countyfest.
  • H This concert was a part of the North Dakota State Fair.
  • I This concert was a part of Cheyenne Frontier Days.
  • J This concert was a part of WE Fest.
  • K This concert was a part of the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam.
  • L This concert was a part of Cause for the Paws.
  • M These concerts are a part of the C2C: Country to Country music festival.

Critical reception

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Nate Chinen of the New York Times says, "She hit her marks, but seemed to be punching from a distance for the third of the show. It was as if she had grown weary of her own ironclad image, or the delivery system around it, or the many forms of upkeep required." "Whatever the case, as she labored, her band smoothly churned, with a balance of muscle and finesse." [3]

The Wichita Eagle's Denise Neil remarked how Lambert thrilled the crowd at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ The October 19, 2015 concert in Calgary at the Scotiabank Saddledome was originally planned to take place on July 9, but was rescheduled due to Lambert's illness.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "2015 Pollstar Year End Top 200 North American Tours" (PDF). Pollstarpro.com. POLLSTAR. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
  2. ^ a b "MIRANDA LAMBERT ANNOUNCES CRYSTAL LIGHT PRESENTS PLATINUM TOUR". Miranda Lambert. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  3. ^ a b Chinen, Nate (September 1, 2014). "Country Gal Feels the Pressure of Being Tough". New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d Neil, Denise. "Review: Miranda Lambert thrills Intrust crowd, especially in duet with Blake Shelton". Kansas.com. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  5. ^ McDonnell, Brandy. "Video: Blake Shelton performs 'God Gave Me You' at Miranda Lambert's Oklahoma City concert". newsok.com. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  6. ^ "ADD YOUR PHOTO THE PLATINUM TOUR". Miranda Lambert. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  7. ^ "Miranda Lambert Setlist at Walmart AMP, Rogers". setlist.fm.
  8. ^ "Miranda Lambert Tour Schedule".
  9. ^ "Miranda Lambert's Calgary Concert Rescheduled for October 19". Global News. August 11, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
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