Taylor Swift Eras Tour adds three shows near Alabama

Feel like you’re in your Road Trip Era? If you live in Alabama and want to see Taylor Swift live in concert, it’s now just a drive away. Or, it will be next year.

The Grammy-winning artist’s record-setting Eras Tour will make a 3-night run in 2024 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans Oct. 25, 26 and 27. The Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows each begin at 7 p.m.

Swift tweeted additional dates Thursday morning, including shows in Miami, Indianapolis and Toronto. “Turns out it’s NOT the end of an era Miami, New Orleans, Indy and Toronto: The Eras Tour is coming to you in 2024 with @gracieabrams!”

Verified fan registration for all shows is open now on Ticketmaster. Verified fan tickets will go on sale Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. Ticket prices are not currently listed. You can also learn more about tickets on Swift’s official website.

The Los Angeles Times reports that for Swift’s upcoming shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, face-value tickets sold for $49 to $449, while secondhand sites sold them for as much as $800 to $11,000.

The Eras Tour is projected to earn a record $1 billion in sales, with CNBC reporting it could be the highest-grossing tour of all time, moving past Elton John’s farewell tour, with gross revenue from tickets, merchandise and sponsorships.

The tour marks the sixth for Swift, serving as a journey through her musical eras and an homage to her discography. The show features a set list of 44 songs divided into 10 acts, all spanning more than three hours.

The Eras Tour has played stadiums in Glendale, Arlington, Tampa, Atlanta, Nashville, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and others.

Due to the unprecedented demand, Ticketmaster’s website crashed less than an hour after they went on sale in 2022. Some fans even filed a federal class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation after the incident. Rolling Stone said the lawsuit alleged “the ticketing company violated federal antitrust laws and unfair competition laws, and that they misled consumers in the sale of tickets for Swift’s tour.” Ticketmaster even apologized to Swift and her fans, saying it did not anticipate the volume of participation in the Verified Fan program.

So if you can make through the Ticketmaster experience and buy Taylor Swift tickets at face value for any or all of these New Orleans shows, the travel isn’t that bad if you’re coming from Alabama.

Using Google Maps, here are the directions (and the length of time) if you’re traveling from any of our major cities:

• From Mobile: 2 hours and 33 minutes via Interstate 10 West.
• From Birmingham: 5 hours and 6 minutes via I-59 S.
• From Huntsville: 6 hours and 24 minutes via I-59 S.
• From Montgomery: 4 hours and 49 minutes via I-65 S and I-10 W.
• From Tuscaloosa: 4 hours and 20 minutes via I-59 S.

And so on. Type your hometown into Google Maps and create your itinerary.