Heart’s 2019 Tour Will Hit Columbia: Tickets, Special Guests

COLUMBIA, MD — Legendary rock band Heart is coming to Merriweather Post Pavilion.The band announced dates for its 2019 summer tour, “Love Alive,” on Monday.

Heart has sold more than 35 million records across the globe, including more than 22.5 million in album sales in America.

Some of the band's top hits include “Alone,” “Barracuda,” “These Dreams,” “What About Love,” and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You.”

Sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson, who make up Heart, have been on hiatus for a while and are reuniting for a summer tour, which will feature several other stars.

"Love Alive" kicks off on July 9 in St. Louis and ends Sept. 9 in Hollywood, California. The trek includes stops in major cities including Chicago, Hartford, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh, Charlotte, Tampa, Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston, Dallas, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver and Las Vegas.

In Columbia, the band will play on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at Merriweather Post Pavilion. When buying tickets, enter the promo code “PatchTickets10” at checkout to get 10 percent off.

Some familiar faces will join Heart on parts of the tour. Special guests include Sheryl Crow, Elle King and fellow legendary rockers Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. Brandi Carlile and Lucie Silvas will also make appearances.

At the Heart show in Columbia on Aug. 13, fans will get to see Elle King as well as Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.

Heart's 2019 summer tour follows what the band called a “temporary hiatus.” In 2016, Ann Wilson’s husband was arrested in Washington and accused of attacking Nancy Wilson’s teen boys.

“I could see it was time for Heart to have a break,” guitarist Nancy Wilson told Rolling Stone in a statement. “We’d been slogging through tour after tour fairly nonstop and were starting to burn out a little bit. Things had just reached a heavy climax. Working with my other new band Roadcase Royale was a lifesaver. Writing brand-new songs playing shows and delivering a new album with them was the medicine my soul needed.”

Lead singer Ann Wilson told the pop culture magazine the sisters have stretched their wings since then, living, traveling and breathing.

“We come to this tour with fresh energy and oxygen,” she said.

Heart rose to fame in the mid-1970s. The band's music was influenced by hard rock, heavy metal and folk music. Its popularity fell in the early 1980s before rocketing back to superstardom in 1985. After that, the rockers were nominated for Grammy awards four times between 1985 and 1990.

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Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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