Florida Georgia Line, Brad Paisley part of Country Megaticket at San Diego's NCIU Amphitheatre

Florida Georgia Line, Brad Paisley part of Country Megaticket at San Diego’s NCIU Amphitheatre

San Diego Union-Tribune

Jan. 18, 2019 7 AM PT

Brad Paisley, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Young and Rascal Flatts are among the artists who will perform at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre as part of the San Diego venue’s annual Country Megaticket.

The nearly 20,000-capacity venue — formerly known as Mattress Firm Amphitheatre — is once again offering discounted ticket packages for a limited time. The entire lineup and ticket prices appear below for what is officially being billed as the 2019 KSON Country Megaticket Presented by Pennzoil.

Last year’s Megaticket included six concert packages that ranged in price from $225 to $795, each, plus service charges. This year’s Megaticket includes four concert packages, with prices ranging from $149 to $549 each, plus service charges.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 25 at ticketmaster.com. The Megaticket will only be available online for one month, with sales closing at 11:59 p.m. on April 7

The Megaticket includes tickets and parking for each of the four concerts. Reserved-seat tickets will be available in the 100 and 300 sections of the venue, depending on the package selected, along with unreserved seats in the lawn area at the rear of North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre.

The prices are $549 for the section 100 reserved seats Megaticket package (which also includes preferred parking), $249 for the section 300 reserved seats package and $149 for the unreserved lawn area package. The latter two options include general parking.

All three packages include early entry to the concerts, with access to merchandise and “exclusive access to discounted North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre ticket upgrades, while supplies last.”

Individual ticket prices and starting times have not yet been announced for the four Megaticket concerts listed below, nor has the on-sale date for individual tickets.

Saturday, June 1: Brad Paisley, Chris Lane and Riley Green

Friday, August 2: Rascal Flatts, with special guests tba

Friday, August 9: Chris Young, with Chris Janson and special guests tba

Friday, Sept. 20: Florida Georgia Line, Dan + Shay, Morgan Wallen and Canaan Smith

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San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”