It was a pretty good crowd for a Thursday morning.
After 48 hours of anticipation and speculation , reporters gathered in the south end zone of Rice-Eccles Stadium to hear what big show was worth its own special announcement and summoning the media.
Jason Farrell, president of Live Nation Utah, and the University of Utah Athletics’ director of broadcasting, Bill Riley, provided an answer at 10:15 a.m.: Billy Joel and Sting .
The two acts will co-headline a one-night only show at the 51,000-seat Rice-Eccles Stadium on May 23, 2025. They will also perform in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Syracuse, New York, next year (both cities also got their own Live Nation press conference Thursday). Farrell said the event “is sure to be one of the biggest concert experiences of 2025″ and noted that Utah has become a “destination for music artists of all sizes.”
“There’s a reason why, and it’s not just because Utah is a beautiful state, and it is,” he said. “But we in Utah have, hands down, the greatest fans in the entire world. Night after night I am told by artists coming off stage that it was the best show they’ve ever played, that it was the best crowd they’ve ever played in front of. And it’s not lip service, it’s not selling it to the audience. It’s the truth. There is a magic at these shows and there’s an energy that is created by community-minded fans that want to share an experience and then create something magical and unlike any other market on the world.”