Taylor Swift to play in new Winnipeg stadium

The first act in Winnipeg’s new football stadium will not be the Blue Bombers.

Grammy-winning songstress Taylor Swift will play Investors Group Field June 22nd, 2013 in a major concert announced Monday.

Swift’s “Red Tour” will entertain crowds in 45 cities next year. Winnipeg is one of only 9 locations where the concerts will be held in stadiums: putting this city’s new 33 thousand seat stadium in company with such venues as Detroit’s Ford Field, Dallas’s Cowboys Stadium, Toronto’s Rogers Centre, Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium, and Chicago’s Soldier Field.

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BRIT award winner Ed Sheeran will join Swift on her tour.

According to a news release today from True North Sports and Entertainment,

“Taylor Swift is a six-time GRAMMY winner, and is the youngest winner in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Her fourth studio album, RED, was just released this week, and is already garnering widespread critical acclaim and setting new sales records. Her 2010 album, Speak Now, was lauded on Rolling Stone’s prestigious The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (by women) list, and Time magazine has named Taylor one of the 100 most influential people in the world.”

No date has yet been for ticket sales.