Janet Jackson To Play Little Caesars Arena

DETROIT, MI — Count Janet Jackson among the growing list of superstars that will appear at the brand new Little Caesars Arena this fall. Jackson has will appear on Oct. 29 as part of a 56-city tour of her "Unbreakable" album. She joins Paul McCartney, Kid Rock, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran as other big names set to appear at the LCA.

Tickets for the Detroit show, part of the newly renamed State of the World tour, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday via LiveNation.com. Jackson’s “State of the World” tour is scheduled to kick off Sept. 7 in Lafayette, La., and finish Dec. 17 in Atlanta. She had been scheduled to play the Palace of Auburn Hills in 2016 but postponed.

As for McCartney, he last played in Detroit in October 2015 for a Joe Louis Arena show. Sheeran will appear on Sept. 27, and Lady Gaga on Nov. 7. Michigan’s own Kid Rock will open the new arena with a six-show run Sept. 12-20.

Little Caesars Arena will be home for the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Pistons, replacing the Joe Louis Arena and Palace of Auburn Hills. The Wings and Pistons will not be the lone sporting events at the arena, however.

The arena will host the 2020 Division I men's hockey Frozen Four. The NCAA also recently announced that LCA will host first- and second-round games of the 2021 Division I men's basketball tournament and the 2022 Division I wrestling championships.

Little Caesars Arena also will host first- and second-round NCAA men's basketball tournament games on March 16 and 18, 2018, the Detroit Free Press reported. Detroit hosted the 2009 Final Four at Ford Field, which saw North Carolina beat Michigan State in the championship game.

Detroit has hosted the Frozen Four six times at three different sites: Olympia Stadium (1977, 1979), Joe Louis Arena (1985, 1987 and 1990) and Ford Field (2010).

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