Keith Urban will headline the halftime show at the 2019 Grey Cup in November.
The Canadian Football League made the announcement via Twitter that the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year will perform at the 107th Grey Cup, which is set to take place on Nov. 24 at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta. The Grey Cup is the Canadian Football League’s championship game, the Canadian equivalent of the Super Bowl.
Urban performed his first sold-out stadium show in Canada at the Saddledome in Calgary, and he reminisced about that show in a press release, saying, “I remember halfway through my show, thinking, ‘Man, this crowd is amazing! Whoever is coming on after us is gonna love these guys.’ And I suddenly thought, ‘I’m it. I’m the guy that’s coming on. I’m here. This is it. This is my crowd.'”
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Urban joins a list of previous Grey Cup halftime show headliners that includes Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Nickelback, the Black Eyed Peas and the Tragically Hip, among many others.
“I know we’ve scored an absolute touchdown for football and music fans everywhere when my three young daughters are as excited about this big news as I am,” Canadian Football League Commissioner Randy Ambrosie says of Urban’s halftime performance.
Urban is also set to headline Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve in Nashville event on Dec. 31.
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