Paul McCartney Celebrates BOK Center's One-Year Anniversary with Performance

WHAT: Paul McCartney
WHERE: BOK Center
WHEN: August 17, 2009
ON SALE: Monday, July 20, 2009 at 10am 

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TICKET INFO: Available online at www.bokcenter.com, Arby's Box Office, all Tickets.com outlets, or by calling 1-866-7-BOKCTR.


Tulsa, OK (July 8, 2009) -- Paul McCartney announced today his first concert ever at BOK Center in Tulsa, OK on Monday, August 17, 2009 in celebration of the venue's one-year anniversary. This monumental event also marks the legendary performer's only arena show on his current 2009 North American stadium tour, as well as McCartney's first Oklahoma concert in nearly seven years--since his 2002 concert at Ford Center in Oklahoma City.

Tickets for the August 17th concert go on sale Monday, July 20 at 10:00AM and can be purchased at the BOK Center Box Office, all Tickets.com outlets, charge by phone at 1-866-7-BOK-CTR or online at www.bokcenter.com.

The BOK Center show will feature classics from McCartney's extensive catalog, including Beatles, Wings and solo career hits as well as selections from his most recent album Electric Arguments, released under his alias The Fireman.

On the heels of Paul McCartney's three-date, sold-out run at New York's Citi Field in July, the August 17th Tulsa performance will be among McCartney's first U.S. appearances since headlining this year's Coachella festival; as well as the same weekend's record-breaking, one-off opening of the new Joint in Las Vegas. McCartney's additional upcoming U.S. concert dates include two shows at Boston's Fenway Park along with performances at Atlanta's Piedmont Park and FedEx Field in Landover, MD.

Reactions to McCartney's recent 2.5-hour, sold-out performances at Coachella and The Joint in Las Vegas were unanimously ecstatic from fans and critics alike:

"McCartney remains a sharp and agile performer, his voice as supple, warm and elastic as ever... Macca signatures Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road... still have the power to raise gooseflesh." -- USA TODAY

"The verdict from his Coachella debut on Friday? Never underestimate the power of a Beatle... The night belonged to Paul." -- LOS ANGELES TIMES

"For almost two and a half hours, he had the attention of what seemed to be the entire multigenerational festival" -- THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Everything you could ask for in a McCartney set. Stunning. Beautiful." -- LA WEEKLY

"The concert of a lifetime" -- LAS VEGAS CITYLIFE



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