Atlanta No. 2 Stop on Garth Brooks World Tour

Tickets go on sale Aug. 8 for country superstar Garth Brook’s Atlanta concert, the first Southern date on his long-awaited return to touring.

The singer last performed in Atlanta 18 years ago, according to his website. His world tour comes to Philips Arena on Sept. 19 with his wife, Trisha Yearwood, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Brooks will begin his tour Sept. 4 in Rosemont, IL, outside Chicago.

Tickets for the Atlanta show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 8, with a limit of six tickets per purchase. They can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com, 1-800-745-3000 or Ticketmaster Express 1-866-448-7849. There will be no sales at the venue box office or Ticketmaster outlets on Aug. 8.

Tickets will cost $71.50 after taxes and fees.

Atlanta will be the second stop on the Garth Brooks World Tour With Trisha Yearwood, after ten concerts in Chicago. More than 180,000 tickets for the Rosemont performances were sold in under three hours last week, reports Rolling Stone magazine. That set a personal record for Brooks, topping his 1997 ticket sales at the same Chicago venue.

Brooks first announced his opening date location to metro Atlantan Andy Roberts, who made the announcement with help with patients from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, the Business Chronicle says.