{"id":251553,"date":"2025-09-24T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251553\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:10:15","slug":"country-star-eric-church-to-stop-in-fort-worth-on-2026-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251553\/","title":{"rendered":"Country star Eric Church to stop in Fort Worth on 2026 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country star Eric Church is expanding his 2025 Free The Machine Tour by adding on a number of new stops in 2026, including a visit to Dickies Arena in Fort Worth on Friday, February 27.<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which just started on September 12, is scheduled to run through November 15 before taking a two-month break. It will pick up again on January 22 for 24 more dates, including Austin on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Church is touring in support of his new album, Evangeline vs. The Machine, his ninth overall release.<\/p>\n<p>Special guest Stephen Wilson Jr. will join Church at the two Texas dates. Opening acts in other cities include Caylee Hammack, Ella Langley, 49 Winchester, and Ashley McBryde.<\/p>\n<p>Church is a seven-time ACM Award winner, four-time CMA Award winner (including 2020\u2019s Entertainer of the Year), and 10-time Grammy nominee, including three nods for Best Country Album.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Church released the song \u201cDarkest Hour\u201d and signed over all of his publishing royalties to the people of North Carolina to provide immediate relief following the devastation of Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the 2026 tour dates will go on sale on Friday, October 3 at 10 am via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/eric-church-tickets\/artist\/1020885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketmaster.com<\/a>. Fort Worth fans can purchase early via Ticketmaster.com on Thursday, October from 10 am to 10 pm with the unlock code DICKIES.<\/p>\n<p>Other presales for both premium and non-premium members of the Church Choir are available through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericchurch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ericchurch.com<\/a>. More details are available on that site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 Free the Machine tour dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>January 22: The Anthem, Washington, DC<\/li>\n<li>January 23: The Anthem, Washington, DC<\/li>\n<li>February 05: CHI Health Center Omaha, Omaha, NE<\/li>\n<li>February 06: Denny Sanford, Sioux Falls, SD<\/li>\n<li>February 07: Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul, MN<\/li>\n<li>February 12: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON<\/li>\n<li>February 13: KeyBank Center, Buffalo, NY<\/li>\n<li>February 14: MVP Arena, Albany, NY<\/li>\n<li>February 19: Simmons Bank Arena, North Little Rock, AR<\/li>\n<li>February 20: T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, MO<\/li>\n<li>February 21: Enterprise Center, St. Louis, MO<\/li>\n<li>February 26: BOK Center, Tulsa, OK<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 27: Dickies Arena, <\/strong><strong>Fort Worth, TX<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>February 28: Moody Center, Austin, TX<\/li>\n<li>March 05: Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center, Knoxville, TN<\/li>\n<li>March 06: First Horizon Coliseum, Greensboro, NC<\/li>\n<li>March 07: North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston, SC<\/li>\n<li>March 19: Legacy Arena at the BJCC, Birmingham, AL<\/li>\n<li>March 20: State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA<\/li>\n<li>March 27: Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino, Hollywood, FL<\/li>\n<li>April 03: Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Greenville, SC<\/li>\n<li>April 04: Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC<\/li>\n<li>April 10: VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, FL<\/li>\n<li>April 11: Benchmark International Arena, Tampa, FL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country star Eric Church is expanding his 2025 Free The Machine Tour by adding on a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,5497,7371,7372,975,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-251553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-concerts","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115260386877496892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}