Taylor started The RED Tour on Wednesday 13 March 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska with 2 sold out arena shows and has continued to sell out every show on her tour. March 13 got of to a great start with the first look preview of Taylor's new music video for her song "22" on Good Morning America. The full video was released at 11am Eastern time and has been played every night on tour while Taylor has been performing 22.
Taylor brought someone special on the road around North America with her to open up her shows. Ed Sheeran. Taylor has a song on RED called Everything Has Changed Feat. Ed Sheeran and the duet was performed each night of the North American tour. Ed Sheeran was amazing opening up each night of The RED Tour playing mostly an acoustic set with the help of a loop pedal. Other opening acts for the North American The RED Tour included Casey James, Austin Mahone, Florida Georgia Line, Brett Eldredge and Joel Crouse.
Taylor started making her way around America with The RED Tour first heading towards the eastern cities with the first stadium on May 4th in Detroit, Michigan with a crowd of 50k screaming fans hanging off her every word and movement. While in Detroit, Taylor also recorded interviews which would see The RED Tour continue past the currently announced 66 dates, by announcing the New Zealand and Australia dates. Additional New Zealand arena dates were later announced due to demand.
Taylor continued her tour of North America heading north into Canada for 4 stadium and 2 arena shows across Canada which marked the first concert to played at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg on June 22. Post Canada, Taylor started a month long run of stadium concerts through July in Pittsburgh, East Rutherford, Philadelphia and Foxborough. One concert was held on a Saturday night in both Pittsburgh and East Rutherford with both Friday and Saturday night concerts in Philadelphia and Foxborough.
August brought the final stadium concert at Solider Field in Chicago and The RED Tour hit America's west coast. Taylor had a 4 night stay at LA's Staples Center bringing her total of sold out shows at the venue to a record breaking 11 shows. LA means special guests and Taylor did not disappoint. Cher Lloyd, Sara Bareilles, Tegan & Sara, Ellie Goulding and Jennifer Lopez all joined Taylor on stage much to the delight of the 13,000 strong crowds each night.
Taylor wrapped up the North American leg of The RED Tour with a 3 night run at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. The poor girl had developed a cold but went ahead with her performances as not one to let the fans down. Nashville also called for special guests in the form of Luke Bryan, Rascal Flats and Hunter Hayes. Being the last concert on September 21st, Ed Sheeran pulled a prank on Taylor by dressing up as a clown to fit in with her final performance of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and surprising her on stage to which Taylor had to have a double take look to confirm what she was seeing. Ed was loving it clearly so did Taylor. It was the perfect ending to a 66 show tour.
Just a week later Taylor announced The RED Tour dates for London and when tickets went on sale the demand was huge with Taylor announcing a further 2 shows in London scheduled for a week after the first dates. A show in Germany was also added about a month later. Taylor now had some well deserved time off from touring.
After flying 30 hours from LA via London for the Winter Whites Gala with Prince Edward and Singapore, Taylor arrived in New Zealand just 20 hours before the next leg of The RED Tour started. Taylor performed a run of 3 arena shows before heading to Australia to become the first female solo artist in 20 years to headline a national stadium tour performing 4 massive stadium shows across the country over 2 weeks. Taylor spent her birthday on the road for the first time, turning 24 while in Melbourne, Australia.
February 2014 arrived and London was ready to turn Red when Taylor started the European leg of The RED Tour. Taylor performed 3 shows at Londons O2 Arena before heading to Berlin, Germany for a 1 off show and then returned to the O2 Arena for another 2 shows. All shows had special guests (in order of appearance) which were Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Danny O'Donoghue, Ed Sheeran (again in Berlin), Emeli Sande and Ellie Goulding.
About a week after Taylor finished her latest leg of The RED Tour, concert dates for Asia were announced with dates in Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Ticket sales were fast with all concerts selling out within hours of going on sale. No further dates have been announced yet.
Edit (April 7th): Taylor announced her first ever show in China on March 26th 2014 for a performance date of May 30th in Shanghai. When tickets when on sale on April 2, the arena was sold out in under one minute, making it the fastest selling concert in Chinese history.
All 66 North American concerts had a surprise acoustic performance and videos of those performances and other videos from The RED Tour so far can be found at the links below:
Acoustic Performances
RED Moments
RED NZ/AUS
RED UK/Germany
One year of The RED Tour is over and now RED Asia approaches.
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