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Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire to perform at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena on Aug. 19

Baltimore Sun
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Lionel Richie performs at MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 3.

Lionel Richie performs at MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 3. (Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena has added a show this August featuring Earth, Wind & Fire as well as Lionel Richie, adding to the newly renovated and reopened venue’s busy summer.

Tickets for the Aug. 19 performance by the prominent soul musicians will go on sale to the public next Monday after a presale this week.

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The venue, formerly known as Royal Farms Arena, 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore Arena and the Baltimore Civic Center, reopened last month in time to host the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament following a major face-lift. Several prominent artists and groups, including Janet Jackson, the Eagles and KISS, as well as Adam Sandler, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Lizzo and blink-182, have booked tour dates this year at the arena.

Earth, Wind & Fire performs at the Wind Creek Steel Stage during Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in August 2019.

Earth, Wind & Fire performs at the Wind Creek Steel Stage during Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in August 2019. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call )

Richie, the former Commodores co-lead and “American Idol” judge, announced dates for the “Sing a Song All Night Long” tour with Earth, Wind & Fire on Monday. The R&B team will also perform at Capital One Arena in Washington on Aug. 18.

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The “Easy” songwriter was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year. Earth, Wind & Fire was inducted in 2000.

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