Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z: Heart of the City Tour Adds Third Madison Square Garden Show

Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z: Heart of the City Tour Adds Third Madison Square Garden Show

LOS ANGELES, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour has sold out all four of its New York area appearances, including Uniondale's Nassau Coliseum, East Rutherford's Izod Center and two Madison Square Garden performances. All four previously announced New York shows sold out in less than an hour after going on sale. As a result a third Madison Square Garden appearance, scheduled for May 2nd, has just been added to the hotly anticipated North American tour.

Tickets for the new date will go on sale beginning this Friday, March 7th at 10:00 a.m., and are available through http://www.livenation.com/. Citi cardmembers will also have access to purchase presale tickets through Citi's Private Pass(R) Program, available to all Citi cardmembers at http://www.privatepass.citi.com/ beginning today.

Mary J. Blige & JAY-Z: Heart of the City tour is produced by Live Nation and Haymon Events and will kick off on March 22nd at Miami's American Airlines Arena.

               MARY J. BLIGE & JAY-Z:  HEART OF THE CITY TOUR     DATE          CITY                      VENUE    March 22      Miami, FL                 American Airlines Arena    March 24      Orlando, FL               Amway Arena    March 26      Baltimore, MD             1st Mariner Arena    March 27      Uniondale, NY             Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum    March 28      East Rutherford, NJ       Izod Center    March 30      Philadelphia, PA          Wachovia Center    April 2       Toronto, ON               Air Canada Centre    April 3       Boston, MA                TD Banknorth Garden    April 5       Greensboro, NC            Greensboro Coliseum    April 6       Washington, DC            Verizon Center    April 8       Atlanta, GA               Phillips Arena    April 9       New Orleans, LA           New Orleans Arena    April 10      Houston, TX               Toyota Center    April 12      Dallas, TX                Superpages.com Center    April 15      Phoenix, AZ               US Airways Center    April 16      Los Angeles, CA           Hollywood Bowl    April 19      Las Vegas, NV             MGM Grand Arena    April 20      Oakland, CA               Oracle Arena    April 25      Auburn Hills, MI          The Palace of Auburn Hills    April 26      Chicago, IL               United Center    April 27      Chicago, IL               United Center    May 2         New York, NY              Madison Square Garden    May 6         New York, NY              Madison Square Garden    May 7         New York, NY              Madison Square Garden    * New dates announced today     ABOUT LIVE NATION:  

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CONTACT: Tresa Sanders of Interscope Geffen A&M, +1-212-841-8272,
tresa.sanders@umusic.com, for MARY J. BLIGE; or Jana Fleishman of Island Def
Jam Music Group, +1-212-445-3298, jana.fleishman@umusic.com, for JAY-Z; or
John Vlautin of LIVE NATION, +1-310-867-7127, johnvlautin@livenation.com, for
Heart of the City Tour

Web site: http://www.livenation.com/

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