Kansas City, MO (March 15, 2013) - CMA Entertainer of the Year and co-host of the Academy of Country Music Awards, Blake Shelton will embark on a headlining tour of the U.S. that stops by Kansas City on Oct. 3. The Ten Times Crazier Tour will also feature special guest Easton Corbin and ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year nominee, Jana Kramer.

Tickets for the Ten Times Crazier Tour will go on sale on Friday, March 22 at 10 a.m. online at t-mobilecenter.com, in person at T-Mobile Center Box Office or charge-by-phone at 888.929.7849.

This is Blake’s second headlining tour following last year’s sold out Well Lit & Amplified Tour. The CMA's Entertainer of the Year and co-host of the Academy of Country Music Awards is coming off seven consecutive No.1 singles, 12 overall, back-to-back wins on NBC's hit show The Voice and is already celebrating his Top 5 new single, “Sure Be Cool If You Did,” which Entertainment Weekly calls “ludicrously catchy” with an A- rating. “Sure Be Cool If You Did” is Blake’s fastest rising single to date and is the first new single off his upcoming album “Based On A True Story…” set for release on March 26 - which Us Weekly gave 3 ½ out of a 4 star review.

“My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform. With The Voice schedule, I was not able to go out and perform as much as I wanted last year but I plan to make up for it this year,” Blake said with a devilish smirk. “This summer is going to be a blast. I want everyone at my shows to leave feeling like they got every penny’s worth of their ticket. I am going to give them every ounce of me on that stage because they deserve it. My fans are die hard country fans, they love to laugh and have a good time and I’m going to join them in what truly will be the Ten Times Crazier Tour.”

Co-Host of the Academy of Country Music Awards Blake Shelton is CMA Awards’ Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year for his third consecutive year. Blake is “becoming the most important and visible ambassador from Nashville to the American mainstream” (The New York Times). He has been nominated for five GRAMMY® Awards, including a nod for Red River Blue, the Associated Press calling the album “the best album of his career” as Country Album of the Year, won ACM’s Male Vocalist of the Year for a second time, celebrated his seventh consecutive No. 1 single (his twelfth overall), and then made history by winning three consecutive CMA Male Vocalist of the Year awards and Song of the Year with his wife and Grammy winner, Miranda Lambert. Blake’s infectious multi-week No.1 hit, “Honey Bee" holds the record for the fastest-selling digital Platinum single for a male country solo artist.

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