Noah Kahan will bring his next world tour to Raymond James Stadium on April 29, 2027, making Tampa the only Florida stop on a stadium run that follows a year of sold-out performances and some of the biggest crowds of his career. The Grammy-nominated singer announced The Last of the Bugs World Tour on Thursday, Oct. 29, with Tampa scheduled as the third performance, between Birmingham, Alabama, and Nashville, Tennessee.
His 2026 Great Divide World Tour sold more than a million tickets before opening night, then began with two sold-out June performances at Orlando’s Kia Center, where 26,684 fans generated $4.37 million in ticket revenue, according to concert-industry publication Pollstar. By August, Kahan had drawn 56,000 people to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, his largest headlining crowd at the time, after selling 153,783 tickets across four nights at Boston’s Fenway Park. Those Boston performances generated $25.57 million in gross sales, averaging roughly $6.4 million per show.
Fenway Park had already demonstrated how concert attendance could translate into spending beyond the ballpark, with a 2024 summer series of 12 performances, including two by Kahan, generating an estimated $124.9 million in economic impact. The Tourism Economics study, commissioned by Meet Boston, found that approximately 393,200 concertgoers attended the series and spent $45.7 million away from the venue, including $14.1 million on lodging, $13.2 million on food and $8.9 million at retailers. Event operations generated another $42.9 million in direct spending, while the series supported an estimated 2,220 full-time and part-time jobs and produced $8.6 million in state and local tax revenue. The concerts also featured Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Green Day and other performers.
Raymond James Stadium saw a similar surge in activity this April when South Korean pop group BTS drew more than 190,000 fans across three sold-out concerts, coinciding with increased spending at businesses throughout Hillsborough County. During the April 25, 26 and 28 performances, hotel occupancy averaged more than 89%, with two nights exceeding 94%, according to Visit Tampa Bay. Spending near the stadium increased 33%, while countywide visitor spending rose more than 40% during the concert period.
Those three nights also brought higher room rates to Hillsborough County hotels, where the average daily rate climbed 27% to $232 and revenue per available room increased 58% to $207, according to Visit Tampa Bay. The county finished April with a record $121.46 million in taxable hotel revenue, a month that also included the Premier League Mornings Live Fan Festival, Breakaway Music Festival and other events. Kahan’s April 29 performance is scheduled for one Thursday night, with attendance projections, ticket-buyer origins and an economic-impact estimate yet to be announced.
Registration for Kahan’s artist presale remains open through Nov. 5 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern, with the presale beginning Nov. 10 at noon and general ticket sales opening Nov. 12 at noon through Ticketmaster. The platform will use its Face Value Exchange program to restrict resale prices to their original value on its site, subject to applicable state laws, while the tour will direct $1 from each ticket sold to Kahan’s Busyhead Project, his mental health initiative. Ticket prices and the final seating configuration for Raymond James Stadium have not been released.