{"id":8046,"date":"2026-01-14T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/john-mellencamp-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:01:00","slug":"john-mellencamp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/john-mellencamp-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp Dusting Off Hits For 2026 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/02\/john_mellencamp-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"John Mellencamp\"><figcaption>John Mellencamp (photo: Marc Hause)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having long resisted filling his concerts with nothing but his many hits, John Mellencamp will reintroduce numerous old favorites on his Dancing Worlds tour this summer. The trek will begin July 10 in Grand Rapids, Mi., and will visit Indianapolis, just an hour north of Mellencamp\u2019s adopted home base of Bloomington, eight days later.<\/p>\n<p>It was previewed through a video depicting Mellencamp, 74, and friend Sean Penn sitting at a roadside diner whose jukebox just happens to be stocked with nothing but the singer\/songwriter\u2019s material (\u201cdon\u2019t they have any Bad Bunny? Lee Greenwood?,\u201d Mellencamp wonders). In it, the artist wrestles with whether to dust off songs from his back catalog, which he says he stopped doing \u201c17 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/40-years-40-questions\/\">40 YEARS, 40 QUESTIONS<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/40-greatest-musicians-of-the-last-40-years-40-to-31\/\">THE 40 GREATEST MUSICIANS OF THE LAST 40 YEARS<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/deep-cut-friday-between-a-laugh-and-a-tear-by-john-mellencamp\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Between a Laugh and a Tear\u2019 by John Mellencamp<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Penn then quips, \u201cGod forbid you\u2019d become generous with your hits and all the soundtrack of peoples\u2019 lives. I can\u2019t imagine you\u2019d want to do that [or] maybe let yourself enjoy it.\u201d The pair are promptly admonished for smoking indoors before the restaurant\u2019s staff and patrons begin singing an impromptu version of Mellencamp\u2019s 1982 favorite \u201cJack and Diane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per his rep, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Farm Aid co-founder will perform songs such as \u201cR.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,\u201d \u201cI Need a Lover,\u201d \u201cWild Night\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t\u00a0Even Done With the Night\u201d for the first time in more than 10 years on Dancing Worlds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mellencamp.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> go on sale Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"tzgcgHUOGDI\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-are-john-mellencamp-s-tour-dates\">Here are John Mellencamp\u2019s tour dates:<\/h2>\n<p>July 10\u2014Grand Rapids, MI\u2014Acrisure\u00a0Amphitheater<br \/>July 11\u2014Tinley Park, IL\u2014Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre<br \/>July 13\u2014Kansas City, MO\u2014Morton Amphitheater<br \/>July 14\u2014Shakopee, MN\u2014Mystic Lake Amphitheater<br \/>July 16\u2014Clarkston, MI\u2014Pine Knob Music Theatre<br \/>July 18\u2014Noblesville, IN\u2014Ruoff Music Center<br \/>July 19\u2014Cincinnati, OH\u2014Riverbend Music Center<br \/>July 21\u2014Cuyahoga Falls, OH\u2014Blossom Music Center<br \/>July 24\u2014Mansfield, MA\u2014Xfinity Center<br \/>July 25\u2014Holmdel, NJ\u2014PNC Bank Arts Center<br \/>July 26\u2014Wantagh, NY\u2014Northwell at Jones Beach Theater<br \/>July 29\u2014Bristow, VA\u2014Jiffy Lube Live<br \/>July 30\u2014Charlotte, NC\u2014Truliant\u00a0Amphitheater<br \/>August 1\u2014Alpharetta, GA\u2014Ameris\u00a0Bank Amphitheatre<br \/>August 3\u2014Tampa, FL\u2014MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre<br \/>August 6\u2014Houston, TX\u2014The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion|<br \/>August 9\u2014Phoenix, AZ\u2014Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre<br \/>August 10\u2014Hollywood, CA\u2014Hollywood Bowl<br \/>August 12\u2014Mountain View, CA\u2014Shoreline Amphitheatre<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mellencamp (photo: Marc Hause) Having long resisted filling his concerts with nothing but his many hits, John Mellencamp will reintroduce numerous old favorites on his Dancing Worlds tour this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3351,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mellencamp","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}