Journey Announces 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour 2023

They won’t stop performin’ if you don’t stop believin’!

Journey announced new dates for a continuation of the band’s 50th Anniversary Freedom Tour 2023, which is set to hit the road this coming February.

Journey will again be joined by TOTO for a nationwide tour that will include 38 different dates over the course of three months spanning between February and April.

The tour kicks off with one of two semi-local shows on February 3rd in Allentown, PA at the PPL Center and circles its way back to the general area for a show at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. on March 17th.

For those with college-aged children attending Penn State University, the tour will also be making a trip to State College, PA, to perform at the Bryce Jordan Center in between the two dates listed above, on March 3rd. Maybe the right time to make the journey up to Happy Valley for a quick parents’ weekend?!

As the tour’s name suggests, Journey is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a band since forming all the way back in 1973. Though some of the band’s original members have gone their separate ways, band founder and lead guitarist, Neal Schon, is still an essential member of this tour.

Throughout Journey’s history, the band has racked up over 25 hit songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100 list. However, to the surprise of some, TOTO, the show's supporting act, holds the lone number one Billboard hit on the tour with their song “Africa,” which peaked at number one in February of 1983.

Anyway you put it, I’m sure those in attendance for these future dates are in for quite the show and I’m sure the bands will welcome you with open arms!

For those interested in going to one of the shows, tickets are on sale Friday, October 18th at 10 a.m., and listen to the John DeBella Show all week for your chance to win tickets before they officially go on sale!

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