Noah Kahan adds 2 more Fenway Park shows "due to overwhelming demand," fans struggle to buy tickets
Music superstar and New England native Noah Kahan added two additional shows at Fenway Park in Boston due to what the venue described as "overwhelming demand" for tickets.
Kahan was originally scheduled to perform May 29, May 30, June 1 and June 2 at the home of the Boston Red Sox.
An artist presale got underway Tuesday for "The Last of the Bugs World Tour." Fans reported waiting in a virtual waiting room for tickets for extended periods of time, some for hours.
By Tuesday afternoon, Kahan announced that he was adding two more shows, "due to overwhelming demand." The tour will return to Fenway Park on June 21 and June 22.
Tickets for all six shows were on sale Tuesday as part of an artist presale. As of 4 p.m., there were no tickets available for any of the Boston concerts.
Noah Kahan ticket struggles
Local musician and Noah Kahan fan Keith Crocker was among those who struck out after a lengthy wait for tickets. He said he's been trying to see Kahan since 2019.
Many concert hopefuls like Crocker ran into issues getting stuck in long online wait times or experiencing app crashes as they waited.
"Took me another 30 minutes, then I just error coded," Crocker said. "The closest I have been to seeing Noah Kahan is driving home on the Pike last year."
Crocker is a local musician who sings and plays the acoustic guitar. He says he was up for New Act of the Year at the 2023 New England Music Awards, adding that Kahan was nominated that same year for the Boston Music Awards.
Crocker will open for Gavin Marengi on November 25 at Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury. He hopes to emulate Kahan's rise from local hero to national star.
"I relate to him more than any other artist with my songs," Crocker said. "Not only his musician story, but my whole life. I moved between Massachusetts and New Hampshire like he did between New Hampshire and Vermont."
Kahan has pushed to keep concerts affordable, restricting ticket transfers and limiting resale prices to discourage scalpers.
"Here, underpricing is deliberate and an investment in loyalty," Boston University marketing professor Florian Elderer said.
Elderer said price hikes are a way to keep tickets available.
"We have to find the way of rationing, not through the price mechanism, but through other allocation mechanisms, which here is who shows up first and is lucky enough to get picked out of a hat," Elderer said about the online system to buy tickets.
Noah Kahan Fenway concerts
Kahan is a Vermont native, writing about his home state in the hit song "Stick Season." Kahan also previously lived in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Previously, Kahan played two sold-out shows at Fenway Park in 2024, concerts that became an album called "Live From Fenway." Kahan also packed the ballpark for four shows in 2026.
Kahan is one of three artists currently announced for the 2027 Fenway Concert Series.
Fall Out Boy, The Offspring, Good Charlotte, and The Story So Far will perform on July 30. Slipknot is scheduled to take the Fenway Park stage on July 31.
The Last of the Bugs tour opens April 24 in Athens, Georgia.
