Clemson announces another country concert at football stadium. See the details
In its push to use Memorial Stadium for things other than football, Clemson athletics has announced a second major country concert in the venue next summer.
Country music star Morgan Wallen will bring his “Still The Problem” tour to Death Valley for two nights and perform at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27, 2026, the athletic department announced Monday.
Wallen, 32, is one of the most popular country music artists nationally right now with hits like “Whiskey Glasses,” “Chasin’ You,” “Last Night” and “I Had Some Help.” He’ll be joined on tour by Brooks & Dunn and other country artists.
Clemson had teased the concert on its social media feeds Sunday.
This is the second major concert Clemson has announced for Memorial Stadium next year. George Strait will perform at the venue on Saturday, May 2, 2026, as part of the “Death Valley Nights” concert series Clemson has created.
Clemson’s football stadium hosted major musicians for years in the 1980s and 1990s but got away from the practice in the 2000s. In the revenue sharing era of college sports, the athletic department is looking for new ways to make money.
Along the same lines, Clemson allowed the Savannah Bananas (a popular traveling baseball and entertainment team) to turn its football field into a baseball field and play a game there in April. The game was nationally televised, featured a sold-out crowd and generated roughly $250,000 in net revenue for Clemson athletics.
Brooks & Dunn will open for Wallen on June 26, and Ella Langley will open on June 27. Gavin Adcock and the band Jason Scott & The High Heat will be on site for both dates. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 7 at 10 a.m.
Fans can also register for Nov. 5 early access to tickets via presale.
Morgan Wallen’s career controversies
Wallen has emerged as one of the most popular country artists nationally, setting multiple Billboard chart records. But his career hasn’t been without controversy.
Wallen was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct in Nashville in May 2020 for kicking glass items at a downtown bar and getting in “multiple verbal altercations” with people. Those charges were ultimately dropped.
In February 2021, Wallen was suspended from his record label and had his songs pulled from several radio stations and streaming platforms after TMZ released a video of him using the N-word racial slur. Wallen publicly apologized for the incident and made a $300,000 donation to the Black Music Action Coalition.
Finally, Wallen was arrested on three counts of felony reckless endangerment after throwing a chair off the sixth-story rooftop of a Nashville bar in April 2024. The chair did not hit anyone but landed on the ground close to police officers.
Wallen in December 2024 agreed to a plea deal that dropped his charges to misdemeanors and included DUI counseling and two years of probation. Police video shows he initially denied throwing the chair off the roof.
This story was originally published November 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM.
