Sibling pop trio AJR announces 2024 tour date at XL Center in Hartford
On Friday the sibling pop trio AJR released their fifth album “The Maybe Man,” and simultaneously announced a major concert tour happening next spring.
A Hartford show is scheduled for April 6, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. at the XL Center, the fourth date on the tour following shows in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
AJR appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday night playing the new song “Yes I’m a Mess,” then were on “Live with Kelly and Mark” Friday morning.
AJR’s national fame came so quickly that they have played large venues both times they’ve appeared in Connecticut previously. In September 2021, AJR was at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford with Daisy the Great. In June of this year, the band played the Westville Music Bowl in New Haven. The XL Center’s capacity is greater than the Oakdale and the Music Bowl put together.
Though they’ve played arenas in many cities on past tours, the 2024 “Maybe Man Tour” is AJR’s first full-scale arena tour, the result of a steady growth in popularity over the past decade. The arena scale suits the band’s grand anthemic sing-along pop style, especially as captured in “The Maybe Man.” The brothers Adam, Ryan and Jack Met first began playing together as teens in the mid-2000s and started releasing albums in 2010.
Tickets go on sale Nov. 17 at 9 a.m. Prices have not yet been revealed. A registration pre-sale is available from Monday at 10 a.m. through Nov. 16 at 10 p.m. A code for presale ticket opportunities can be found on the XL website.
One dollar from each ticket sold will be donated to the climate-awareness non-profit Planet Reimagined, an organization founded by Adam Met.