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Garth Brooks to play benefit show in Los Angeles
"Retired" country superstar Garth Brooks continues his return to concert stages in January when he plays a one-off show in Los Angeles to benefit wildfire relief efforts.
Unlike Brooks' string of nine sold-out shows earlier this month in Kansas City, MO, the Jan. 26 Staples Center performance looks to be one night only, as the building's sports tenants--the NBA's Lakers and Clippers and the NHL's Kings--all have games scheduled in the days immediately before and after the singer's concert.
Proceeds from the show will go to victims of the recent wildfires that swept through Southern California, as well as toward programs assisting California's firefighters, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Tickets for the event go on sale Dec. 1 at 9 a.m. PST and will only be available online through Ticketmaster.com, Brooks' website, or via Ticketmaster's charge-by-phone service. (Ticketmaster is LiveDaily's parent company.) All tickets will run $40, with a limit of six per customer.
Brooks' nine-show Kansas City run, which kicked off Nov. 5 and ran through Nov. 14, represented sales of about 140,000 tickets, all of which were snapped up in under two hours, according to The Kansas City Star. The singer followed those dates up with a Nov. 16 appearance in Oklahoma City, OK.
Brooks has not mounted a formal tour since announcing his retirement from the music business in 2000. His latest release, the three-disc best-of "The Ultimate Hits," hit stores earlier in November.
