Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart Of The City Tour Sells Out in Just Hours in Baltimore, Long Island, NY, East Rutherford, NJ, Boston and Washington, DC, Additional Cities Announced

Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart Of The City Tour Sells Out in Just Hours in Baltimore, Long Island, NY, East Rutherford, NJ, Boston and Washington, DC, Additional Cities Announced

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most highly anticipated concert tours in recent memory, the Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour, sold out in Baltimore, Long Island, NY, East Rutherford, NJ, Boston and Washington DC, within hours this past Saturday. With tickets going fast in the other previously announced markets, the two superstars have announced six new stops on their historic co-headlining tour. New cities include Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Oakland and Chicago.

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Tickets for the new dates go on sale beginning this Friday, February 22nd and are available through www.livenation.com.

Citi cardmembers will also have access to purchase presale tickets through Citi's Private Pass(R) Program, available to all Citi cardmembers at www.privatepass.citi.com beginning today.

Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour is produced by Live Nation and Haymon Events and will kick off on March 22nd at Miami's American Airlines Arena. Additional dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

MARY J. BLIGE & JAY-Z: HEART OF THE CITY TOUR

DATE CITY VENUE
March 22 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
March 26 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
March 27 Uniondale, NY Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
March 28 East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
March 30 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
April 2 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
April 3 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
April 5 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
April 6 Washington, DC Verizon Center
April 8 Atlanta, GA Phillips Arena*
April 9 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena*
April 10 Houston, TX Toyota Center*
April 12 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center*
April 16 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
April 20 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena*
April 26 Chicago, IL United Center*

* New dates announced today

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CONTACT: MARY J. BLIGE, Tresa Sanders of Interscope Geffen A&M,
+1-212-841-8272, tresa.sanders@umusic.com; JAY-Z, Jana Fleishman of Island Def
Jam Music Group, +1-212-445-3298, jana.fleishman@umusic.com; or John Vlautin
of LIVE NATION, +1-310-867-7127, johnvlautin@livenation.com

Web site:

http://www.livenation.com/
http://www.privatepass.citi.com/

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