First concert sold out already, Boise’s major summer venue announces second show of 2025
It took all of a week for the first concert announced at Outlaw Field in 2025 to sell out in advance.
So if you’re interested in tickets to the second one, better dust off that credit card.
Country and bluegrass singer-fiddler Alison Krauss is the latest act revealed at the Idaho Botanical Garden’s grassy music mecca. Krauss and her crack band, Union Station, will headline a 7:30 p.m. show on Wednesday, July 23. Die-hard fans will be pleased to see dobro master Jerry Douglas back in the fold as a featured member of Union Station.
Many will be stoked seeing Krauss with Union Station at all. That musical force hasn’t released an album since 2011’s Grammy-winning “Paper Airplane.”
Outlaw Field is the main summer concert venue inside Boise city limits, but its capacity is only about 4,000 people. That means shows occasionally sell out — as was the case for indie-rock band Lord Huron, which will be there May 23.
General-admission tickets to the Krauss and Union Station concert will cost $70 starting at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster. Garden members pay $65 and can start buying them beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
The evening’s opening act will be Willie Watson.
Krauss, 53, is fourth on the all-time list of Grammy winners — with a jaw-dropping 27. She released her first solo album in 1987. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that her angelic voice broke through to the masses on the movie soundtracks to “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “Cold Mountain.”
In 2007, Krauss further entrenched herself as a household name by teaming up with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame on their million-selling album “Raising Sand.” The duo’s collaborative tours have been major successes — even if they never manage to stop in the Boise area.
Krauss is no stranger to the City of Trees, though. She also performed at Outlaw Field in 2017 with co-headlining singer David Gray.
This story was originally published December 3, 2024 at 8:00 AM.