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Morgan Wallen, the country music superstar and massive draw for college football fans, will perform in Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2026. Wallen’s “Still the Problem Tour” will stop at the home of the Alabama football team on April 18, 2026. Special guests for this show include Ella Langley, Vincent Mason, and Zach John King. Other tour stops include Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Gainesville (Fla.), Denver, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, and Philadelphia. The rest of the tour will feature guests Brooks & Dunn, Hardy, Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock, Flatland Cavalry, Hudson Westbrook, Jason Scott & The High Heat and Blake Whiten. It’s unclear how many tickets will be available for the show, but with a capacity of more than 100,000 at the stadium, it promises to be the largest crowd Wallen has performed for in Alabama. It’s also the first publicly announced concert at Bryant-Denny, home of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team, in decades. Wallen, 32, has previously performed in U.S. stadiums on his “One Night at a Time World Tour” in 2023-24 and the “I’m the Problem Tour” in 2025. It would mark Wallen’s third SEC football stadium date, following an April 2024 show at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, a date he made up after canceling a 2023 gig after losing his voice, followed by two sold-out shows at Neyland Stadium, home of the Tennessee Volunteers. Wallen also played Camp Randall Stadium, the home venue of the Wisconsin Badgers. Wallen has performed in Alabama several times, most recently headlining the Sand in My Boots festival, a one-year takeover of the Hangout Fest, in Orange Beach last May, which sold 40,000 tickets the day they went on sale the previous October. Wallen also co-headlined Cullman’s annual Rock the South festival in 2022. The event announced it will move to Decatur in 2026. Along with selling out shows here, Wallen has history off-stage in Alabama. NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” booked Wallen to perform as musical guest in October 2020 but scrapped the gig just three days before when he was spotted partying in Tuscaloosa after an Alabama football game, free of any concern about the COVID-19 pandemic. Wallen showed contrition, and less than two months later the show re-invited him, with a hilarious twist. There were obviously no hard feelings, since writers incorporated the incident on the show, inviting Wallen to play himself in an Alabama bar (they actually use an exterior shot of Innisfree Irish Pub) -- full of Crimson Tide logos, hats and other gear -- with the singer living it up with host Jason Bateman and cast members like Pete Davidson, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang. The Tennessee native has transcended the country genre to become one of the biggest stars in music. His debut studio album “If I Know Me” reached the top of the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 2018. He continued to find commercial success with the release of “Dangerous: The Double Album” in 2021 featuring singles like “More Than My Hometown,” “7 Summers,” “Sand in My Boots” and “Wasted on You.” His 2023 album “One Thing at a Time” spent its first 12 weeks of release in the top spot of the Billboard 200, thanks to singles like “You Proof,” “Thought You Should Know” and “Last Night.” Wallen’s latest album “I’m the Problem” released in May 2025, once again putting Wallen at number one on the Billboard charts. Already the best-selling artist of the 21st century, Wallen has received 14 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy of Country Music Award, Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards and others. Wallen has famous fans, too, with many joining the singer during his walk out to the stage during concerts including Peyton Manning, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Theo Von, Hulk Hogan, Drake, Brett Favre and Kid Rock. The stadium, which seats a capacity of 100,077, has only hosted a few live non-football events, including some homecoming concerts in the early 1980s and the country band Alabama after the 1992 spring game. The last publicly announced concert scheduled for the venue was country star Alan Jackson for April 2008 as part of Gridiron Bash, during A-Day spring football scrimmage weekend. The Gridiron Bash, organized by MSL Sports and Entertainment, was a 16-school project designed to turn spring football games into weekend entertainment events. The Jackson concert was announced in late February and then canceled a month later, due to concerns about student-athletes promoting the event. The concert would have taken place April 11, the night before the A-Day spring game, and would feature a pep rally led by then-Alabama head coach Nick Saban. Tickets would have cost $56 for field seats and $39 for stadium seats. The University of Alabama had sold roughly 10,000 tickets prior to the cancellation. According to The Tuscaloosa News, the Jackson concert would have marked the first time the University of Alabama would open Bryant-Denny Stadium for a live performance since the Football Centennial Celebration in 1992. In 2019, Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne told AL.com that while he noticed a growing trend in concerts performed in college football stadiums, he had “nothing exciting to report” at that time. The 90-year-old structure that has been expanded eight times is not exactly engineered for hosting events like a blow-out summer concert, AL.com’s Michael Casagrande reported in 2019. “The stadium is not really built that well for the load in and load out when you see some of the mega-concert stages that exist,” Byrne said. “It just hasn’t been part of the renovations that have up to this point.” The kind of stage required for a concert in a stadium as large as Bryant-Denny would require a fleet of tractor trailers that couldn’t fit through the narrow entries from the street to the field. Casagrande reports Bryant-Denny’s concert history traces back to the 1930s, when the Tuskegee Institute’s 100 Jubilee Singers held a concert charging students 35 cents and all others 50 cents. While UA booked several A-list artists during the 1970s like Rolling Stones, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and many others, they performed in Memorial Coliseum (now Coleman Coliseum). After a thwarted attempt in the ’70s to book Crosby Stills, Nash and Young to play a show along with the Allman Brothers, the stadium did host some concerts, several the night before annual homecoming games, including Crystal Gayle and the Statler Brothers in 1981, and later Jerry Lee Lewis and Hank Williams Jr. in front of 30,000 fans in 1983. Prior to Garth Brooks’ sold-out performance at Protective Stadium in Birmingham in June 2022, Alabama’s stadium concert history was pretty thin, at least since the same city’s Legion Field hosted several high-profile artists until the late ‘90s, including Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, U2, George Strait, among others. Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium also hosted concerts in 2016 and 2017. Pop and R&B star Chris Brown also performed at Protective Stadium in October. Wallen’s full 2026 tour calendar is listed below: April 10: Minneapolis, Minn. -- U.S. Bank Stadium w/ Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason April 11: Minneapolis, Minn. -- U.S. Bank Stadium w/ HARDY, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason April 18: Tuscaloosa, Ala. -- Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium w/ Ella Langley, Vincent Mason, Zach John King May 1: Las Vegas, Nev. -- Allegiant Stadium w/ Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason May 2: Las Vegas, Nev. -- Allegiant Stadium w/ Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason May 8: Indianapolis, Ind. -- Lucas Oil Stadium w/ Brooks & Dunn, Hudson Westbrook, Zach John King May 9: Indianapolis, Ind. -- Lucas Oil Stadium w/ Ella Langley, Flatland Cavalry, Zach John King May 15: Gainesville, Fla. -- Ben Hill Griffin Stadium w/ Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King May 16: Gainesville, Fla. -- Ben Hill Griffin Stadium w/ Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King May 29: Denver, Colo. -- Empower Field at Mile High w/ Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason May 30: Denver, Colo. -- Empower Field at Mile High w/ Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Vincent Mason June 5: Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Acrisure Stadium w/ Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King June 6: Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Acrisure Stadium w/ Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King June 19: Chicago, Ill. -- Soldier Field w/ Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King June 20: Chicago, Ill. -- Soldier Field w/ Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Zach John King July 17: Baltimore, Md. -- M&T Bank Stadium w/ Brooks & Dunn, Gavin Adcock, Jason Scott & The High Heat July 18: Baltimore, Md. -- M&T Bank Stadium w/ Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Jason Scott & The High Heat July 24: Ann Arbor, Mich. -- Michigan Stadium w/ Thomas Rhett, Hudson Westbrook, Blake Whiten July 25: Ann Arbor, Mich. -- Michigan Stadium w/ HARDY, Hudson Westbrook, Blake Whiten July 31: Philadelphia, Pa. -- Lincoln Financial Field w/ Brooks & Dunn, Hudson Westbrook, Blake Whiten Aug. 1: Philadelphia, Pa. -- Lincoln Financial Field w/ Ella Langley, Hudson Westbrook, Blake Whiten
