COLUMBUS, Ohio — Morgan Wallen will bring his 2027 stadium tour to Ohio Stadium for two nights next summer, announcing Thursday that the Last Time I Checked Tour will stop in Columbus on Friday, August 6, and Saturday, August 7, 2027. According to Pollstar, the run covers 14 stadium shows in just seven cities, with two consecutive nights in each, and the Columbus dates are the tour’s only Ohio stop.
Each Columbus night carries its own special guest. Thomas Rhett joins the bill on Friday night, August 6, while Brooks & Dunn take the special-guest slot on Saturday night, August 7. Cole Swindell and Stella Lefty will open both Ohio Stadium shows — the pair is on the bill for all 14 dates of the tour, according to Pollstar’s rundown of the announcement.
Fans who want tickets will have to move quickly, and the first step is already open. Presale registration is live now at LastTimeICheckedTour.com and closes Thursday, November 19, at 10 p.m. ET. Ticketmaster lists both Ohio Stadium dates, with the public on-sale set for Friday, November 20, at 10 a.m. local time. Ticket prices for the Columbus shows have not been announced.
The tour, promoted by AEG Presents, opens June 11, 2027, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, and closes August 27 and 28 at the new Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. In between, Wallen plays two-night stands in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Athens, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Columbus; and Arlington, Texas — a deliberately short list of the biggest rooms in American music.
The Columbus shows mark Wallen’s return to one of the most famous venues in the country. He last played Ohio Stadium in 2023, and the 102,000-seat horseshoe on the banks of the Olentangy River remains one of the largest stadiums in college football. For Ohio country fans, the two-night stand is the biggest country booking announced for the state in 2027.
The tour supports Wallen’s 2025 album “I’m the Problem” and follows the Still The Problem Tour, which sold out 23 stadium shows. That sellout history is why Columbus fans should expect demand for the Ohio Stadium dates to be intense — and why the presale registration, rather than the general on-sale, may be the best shot at seats.
The full routing underlines how selective the tour is. After Tampa on June 11 and 12, Wallen plays Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on June 25 and 26, Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia, on July 16 and 17, and Highmark Stadium in Buffalo on July 23 and 24. Columbus follows on August 6 and 7, then AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on August 13 and 14, before the Nashville finale. Brooks & Dunn, HARDY and Thomas Rhett rotate through the special-guest slot across the run, with HARDY’s dates falling outside Columbus.
The announcement adds two of the biggest nights of 2027 to a Columbus concert calendar that stays busy year-round — Little Big Town plays Mershon Auditorium on Friday night, and Ohio Stadium’s summer schedule now has its anchor event. Two August nights at the ‘Shoe will also mean a major weekend for Columbus hotels, restaurants and bars.
Ohio’s stadiums keep landing the tours every artist wants to play. Haslam Sports Group recently touted more than $4 billion in Ohio stadium investments, and bookings like Wallen’s two-night stand show why the venues matter: a single weekend can put a city on the national entertainment map and fill it with visitors.
Word of the Columbus dates spread fast across Ohio on Thursday morning. Dayton’s K99.1 FM was among the Ohio stations already promoting ticket giveaways within hours of the announcement, a sign of how quickly the shows are expected to sell. Social media lit up with fans from across the state marking the August dates.
Here is what fans should do now. Register at LastTimeICheckedTour.com before the November 19 deadline — registration is the way into the presale, and it costs nothing to sign up. If any tickets remain after the presale, the general on-sale follows Friday, November 20, at 10 a.m. local time through Ticketmaster. Given Wallen’s run of stadium sellouts, buying through official channels at on-sale is the safest route.
The next concrete step comes fast: presale registration closes Thursday, November 19, at 10 p.m. ET, and tickets go on sale to the public the next morning. After that, the countdown is on to August 6 and 7, 2027, when the Last Time I Checked Tour rolls into Ohio Stadium for two of the biggest country music nights Ohio will see next year.
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