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Grown-up boy band 5 Seconds of Summer and metal legends Iron Maiden are the first two acts announced to play Mystic Lake Amphitheater, the new 19,000-capacity outdoor venue that will open next year in Shakopee. Tickets for 5 Seconds of Summer’s July 22 concert go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Iron Maiden’s Sept. 19 show, which also includes Megadeth as the opener, goes on sale at 3 p.m. Friday, also through Ticketmaster. Not to be confused with Mystic Lake Casino’s own amphitheater, Mystic Lake Amphitheater will host more than 30 concerts each summer and create 700 permanent jobs, according to Swervo Development Corp., a local firm that also transformed the Armory and Uptown Theater in Minneapolis into concert venues. Live Nation will operate the amphitheater. Mystic Lake Amphitheater serves as an anchor tenant of Canterbury Commons, a $400 million entertainment district in development near Canterbury Park. The district is also expected to include apartments, a brewery, restaurants and an office building. Work on the 37-acre site began in July 2023. 5 Seconds of Summer Formed in Australia in 2011, 5 Seconds of Summer found their first fame via YouTube and earned new fans worldwide after touring with One Direction in 2013. They stood out from the boy band pack as they played their own instruments and added elements of rock to their sound. The band’s first three albums hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, while their next two each reached No. 2. Their sixth album, “Everyone’s a Star,” is due out Nov. 14. They’ve previously headlined the former Xcel Energy Center several times and the Armory in 2022 and 2023. Iron Maiden Iron Maiden hit No. 4 on the British charts with their self-titled 1980 debut album. They didn’t find success in the States until their third release, 1982’s “The Number of the Beast,” the group’s first with vocalist Bruce Dickinson. For the decade that followed, Iron Maiden continued to release new music and tour heavily, including a handful of shows at the old Met Center. In 1993, Dickinson left Iron Maiden for a solo career. Six years later, Dickinson returned to the band, who went on a worldwide reunion tour that ended with a show at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil in front of an audience of more than 250,000. In the years since, Iron Maiden has continued to find success on the road. Last October, they played the former Xcel Energy Center for the third time in front of about 15,000 fans. Additional shows at Mystic Lake Amphitheater will be announced on a rolling basis, according to a news release.
