Brooks & Dunn coming to Pittsburgh for 'Reboot Tour'

Top-selling county music duo Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn are making a long-awaited return to Pittsburgh.

On Monday morning, it was announced Brooks & Dunn will perform May 12 at PPG Paints Arena as part of their extended “Reboot Arena Tour.” Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Scotty McCreery will be the opening performer.

No one could blame Pittsburgh-area fans for giving up hope of seeing Brooks & Dunn in concert again.

They played what was billed as their final show together in 2010 as part of a farewell tour called “The Last Rodeo.” On that tour, they performed at First Niagara Pavilion in Burgettstown on July 30.

They caught their fans by surprise the year before when they announced they were going to stop touring together.

“After 20 years of making music and riding this trail together, we have agreed as a duo that it’s time to call it a day,” they said at the time.

The Brooks and Dunn posse rides again. More excited to hit the big stage as we ever have been! || REBOOT 2023 TOUR with @ScottyMcCreery coming to a city near you! Visit https://t.co/dkQGKy8Vjf for full list of dates.

Presale: 1/24/23 @ 10am
Public onsale: 1/27/23 @ 10am pic.twitter.com/qfqW584QGX

— Brooks & Dunn (@BrooksAndDunn) January 23, 2023

Bucket list tour alert!! ???? See yall on the road w/ @BrooksAndDunn! pic.twitter.com/hFthRUDXQc

— Scotty McCreery (@ScottyMcCreery) January 23, 2023

Though they indicated the split was amicable, TasteofCountry.com reported that in later interviews they said “things between them were so tense at one point in the late 1990s that they recorded songs for an album in different studios with different producers.”

Supposedly, Brooks & Dunn played their final show Sept. 2, 2010, in Nashville. But in Elton John fashion, they were bowing out prematurely. They did go their separate ways for a while and recorded solo albums.

However, the duo got back together in 2015 for a Las Vegas residency and by 2019 they recorded an album called “Reboot.” In January 2020, they announced a reboot tour, but it was postponed until 2021 by the pandemic and finally kicked off that September.

“Last year, you all reminded us just how much fun it is to walk out on that stage and share the night with ya!” Brooks said. “We love what we do, but we’re just surfing your wave … can’t wait.”

“The Brooks and Dunn posse rides again,” Dunn said. “More excited to hit the big stage as we ever have been!”

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.brooks-dunn.com and www.livenation.com. Fans also can buy VIP Packages. For more information, visit www.vipnation.com.