Usher, too, is settling in for two nights in an arena this fall, helping fend off inflated resale prices and poorer stadium acoustics. By Chris Riemenschneider. After a busy summer filled with big days out at stadiums and festival grounds, Twin Cities music lovers are looking at a different option for fall: smaller two-night affairs in local arenas and theaters.
For concertgoers, these two-night stands are something to cheer for. Diehard fans can go both nights. More casual fans have a choice of nights. Also, the acoustics at arena concerts are almost always superior to those in a bigger stadium, where both Eilish and Usher likely could have performed this year, like Pink did last year.
Maybe best of all, two-night stands typically amount to lower ticket prices for fans compared with a one-night-only tour stop, especially on the resale end. Prices on resale sites such as StubHub are also not highly inflated. The fact that she was just here last year no doubt helped ease demand, too. The artists themselves also can enjoy some financial benefits β a factor taken more into consideration in recent years as the cost of producing concerts has sharply risen at all levels of the touring business.
Many of the performers enjoy spending an extra night in town, rather than rushing off to the next tour stop. One veteran singer, Margo Timmins of the acclaimed Canadian folk-rock group the Cowboy Junkies, voiced her joy over getting to perform two nights at one local venue, the Dakota, two weeks ago. Being able to charge a little more for tickets because of its smaller, intimate setting, the Dakota has made multinights stands a common feature on its concert calendar. In the midsize venue range, multinight stands often give the artists the chance to stretch out and perform different sets to sometimes the same audience members each night.
Because stage production is often tightly choreographed for arena concerts, a two-night stand in the bigger rooms usually means two versions of the same performance. Usher has somewhat varied the set lists at other two-night stops on his tour, but both Pink and Eilish have mostly played the same songs in order at their other paired-up concerts.
