{"id":119233,"date":"2025-02-07T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/07\/billy-joel-sting-to-play-new-yorks-citi-field-in-augus\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:02:01","slug":"billy-joel-sting-to-play-new-yorks-citi-field-in-augus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/07\/billy-joel-sting-to-play-new-yorks-citi-field-in-augus\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel &amp; Sting to play New York\u2019s Citi Field in Augus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-06\/Getty_BillyJoelSting_020625.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Billy Joel<\/strong> and <strong>Sting<\/strong> are teaming up for another show this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0rock star friends\u00a0are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFu3ZJwRrYn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>set to headline<\/strong><\/a> New York&#8217;s Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, on Aug. 21. While this is Billy\u2019s first time playing Citi Field, he\u2019s no stranger to a Mets stadium. He shut down the team\u2019s former home, Shea Stadium, with two shows in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this will also be <strong>Sting<\/strong>\u2019s first show at Citi Field, although he played Shea with <strong>The Police<\/strong> in August 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can get tickets via a Citi presale\u00a0starting Monday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Feb. 14 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third show Billy has announced in the New York metro area. He\u2019s also headlining Yankee Stadium with <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong> on July 19 and MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with <strong>Stevie Nicks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Billy and Sting are also\u00a0scheduled to play Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billyjoel.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>billyjoel.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Miller\/Getty Images Billy Joel and Sting are teaming up for another show this summer. The\u00a0rock star friends\u00a0are set to headline New York&#8217;s Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, on Aug. 21. While this is Billy\u2019s first time playing Citi Field, he\u2019s no stranger to a Mets stadium.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/07\/billy-joel-sting-to-play-new-yorks-citi-field-in-augus\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}