Alicia Keys' San Diego concert has been rescheduled for November

Alicia Keys’ San Diego concert has been rescheduled for November

Alicia Keys at the Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles on May 20, 2021.

Her concert is moving from an outdoor SDSU venue to a nearby indoor venue on the campus

San Diego Union-Tribune

Sept. 19, 2022 10:34 AM PT

Alicia Keys has rescheduled her Sept. 9 San Diego concert, which was postponed the day of the show because of weather concerns.

The new date is Nov. 5 and will be held at San Diego State University’s Viejas Arena. That is a short walk from where Keys’ Sept. 9 concert was scheduled to be held at SDSU’s Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheatre.

This will mark the fourth effort by the 15-time Grammy Award-winner to perform in San Diego since she and her family became La Jolla residents in 2019. Her sold-out 2020 concert at the SDSU amphitheater was postponed until 2021 because of the pandemic, then postponed again until Sept. 9, then postponed yet again.

Keys’ current tour is scheduled to conclude Sept, 26 in Nashville. Apart from her new Nov. 5 San Diego concert, her website does not list any other performances for the rest of this year.

Tickets for Keys’ Sept. 9 SDSU concert can be exchanged online through Ticketmaster for tickets for her Nov. 5 SDSU concert, or can be refunded online.

Concerts at Viejas Arena can accommodate up to 13,500 attendees, depending on the seating configuration. The capacity of SDSU’s Open Air Theatre, where Keys’ sold-out Sept. 9 concert was scheduled, is 4,500.

This suggests that more tickets could go on sale for her new Nov. 5 Viejas Arena concert. Live Nation, the concert’s promoter, has not yet disclosed if — or when — any new tickets will be available for the show. The Ticketmaster link for Keys’ Nov. 5 concert reads: “Sorry, tickets are not currently available online.”

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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.”