Wolfgang Van Halen, Billy Bob Thornton and 3 other big names playing Green Bay this fall
Monster guitar riffs from Wolfgang Van Halen. "No Scrubs" by TLC. A night with Billy Bob Thornton the musician, not the actor.
Summer hasn't even arrived yet, but music fans who want to get in on some of fall's biggest concerts will need to do their ticket planning now. Here's five newly announced shows for Green Bay that have tickets that either just went on sale or go on sale May 9.
Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters will make the only Wisconsin stop on the band's fall tour for a concert on Sept. 17 at the Ashwaubenon Performing Arts Center.
Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters
7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at Ashwaubenon Performing Arts Center, Ashwaubenon. The Academy Award-winning actor and star of Paramount+ series "Landman" makes his only Wisconsin stop on a U.S. tour in support of his band's 19th album, "Pepper Tree Hill," out July 11. Thornton and Grammy Award-winning sound engineer J.D. Andrew, who share a love of rock 'n' roll of the 1960s, formed the band in 2006. Fran Moran & The Nervous Wrecks open. $49, $59, $69; on sale now; TicketStar at 800-895-0071 and ticketstaronline.com.
Eric Church
7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at Resch Center, Ashwaubenon. The scramble to get tickets for this one is going to be real. Eric Church is always a slam dunk when he plays the Resch (seven sellouts and counting since 2012), but one of country music's biggest risk-takers with one of the genre's most passionate fanbases is only playing 22 cities on his Free the Machine Tour, and Green Bay is among the smallest markets to land a stop. Also fueling the excitement: rave reviews for his new "Evangeline vs. The Machine" album that dropped May 2. Rolling Stone called it "dazzling" and "a masterwork." The Marcus King Band opens. Tickets are $87 and up; on sale at 10 a.m. May 9; ticketstaronline.com only (no phone or box office sales until after May 9).
TLC's Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, pictured, and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins will perform Sept. 25 at EPIC Event Center in Ashwaubenon.
TLC
7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at EPIC Event Center, Ashwaubeon. Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas bring powerhouse 1990s hits "No Scrubs," "Waterfalls" and "Creep" to Green Bay for the group's first appearance in the city since I Love the '90s — The Party Continues Tour at the Resch Center in 2017. $59 general admission, $89 standing mezzanine, $119 reserved mezzanine; on sale now; etix.com.
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MercyMe
7 p.m. Oct. 17 at Resch Center, Ashwaubenon. Green Bay is the first stop on MercyMe's fall tour with nine-time Grammy nominee Natalie Grant and newcomer Sam Wesley, but it'll be a return visit to the Resch Center for the popular Christian band. The band's new version of "Oh Death" with Walker Hayes drops May 9. An album is due later this year. Tickets start at $39; on sale at 10 a.m. May 9; TicketStar at 800-895-0071 and ticketstaronline.com.
Rock band Mammoth, fronted by Wolfgang Van Halen, will make its Green Bay debut on Nov. 23 at the EPIC Event Center in Ashwaubenon.
Mammoth
7 p.m. Nov. 23 at EPIC Event Center, Ashwaubenon. Wolfgang Van Halen, son of the late Eddie Van Halen, formed Mammoth a decade ago, but this will be the rock band's Green Bay debut as part of a five-week fall headlining tour that launches Oct. 31. Mammoth, which recently dropped the "WVH" from its name, just released a new single, "The End," from the group's forthcoming third album. The accompanying video is a horror movie short starring Danny Trejo, with cameos by Wolfgang's mom, actress Valerie Bertinelli, Slash and Myles Kennedy, who is special guest on the fall tour. $37 general admission, $67 standing mezzanine, $97 reserved mezzanine; on sale at 10 a.m. May 9; etix.com.
Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on X @KendraMeinert.
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