U2 Will Headline Bonnaroo

MANCHESTER, TN — As has been rumored for weeks, Irish rock legends U2 are set to play the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., according to a release sent out Monday morning. The release also confirmed dates for U2's stadium tour in celebration of their seminal album "The Joshua Tree."

Bonnaroo will announce the rest of its lineup for this year's festival, which runs June 8-11, on Wednesday. For their part, U2 announced a tour of 24 stadia in North America and Europe, beginning May 12 in Vancouver, with the North American leg concluding July 1 in Cleveland.

Bonnaroo is the only festival on the tour schedule and is the first time U2 has headlined a festival in the United States.

Check the full tour schedule:

May 12: Vancouver, BC Place Stadium
May 14: Seattle, CenturyLink Field
May 17: Santa Clara, Cal., Levi's Stadium
May 20: Los Angeles, Rose Bowl
May 24: Houston, NRG Stadium
May 26: Dallas, AT&T Stadium
June 3: Chicago, Soldier Field
June 7: Pittsburgh, Heinz Field
June 8-11: Manchester, Tenn. Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, M
June 11: Miami, Hard Rock Stadium
June 14: Tampa, Raymond James Stadium
June 18: Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field
June 20: Washington, D.C., FedEx Field
June 23: Toronto, Rogers Centre
June 25: Boston, Gillette Stadium
June 28: East Rutherford, N.J. MetLife Stadium
July 1: Cleveland, First Energy Stadium

July 8: London, U.K., Twickenham Stadium
July 12: Berlin, Germany, Olympic Stadium
July 15: Rome, Italy, Olympic Stadium
July 18: Barcelona, Spain, Olympic Stadium
July 22: Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Croke Park
July 25: Paris, France, Stade De France
July 29: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam Arena
Aug. 1: Brussels, Belgium, King Baudouin Stadium

More information is available on the band's site. Mumford & Sons will open the first three dates of the North American leg. The Lumineers will open the rest, except for Miami, Tampa and Cleveland, which will be opened by One Republic. The High Flying Birds, the current project of Noel Gallagher, formerly of Oasis, will open in Europe.

Bonnaroo ticket sales fell precipitously in 2015, selling 28,000 fewer than the year before and far below its 10-year average of 75,000. Last summer was the first time the festival had been fully controlled by concert promotion behemoth LiveNation and music industry observers said a rather middling slate of headliners — Pearl Jam, LCD Soundsystem and Dead & Company — likely contributed to the drop-off in sales, according to a report from The Tennessean.

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