Concerts
The stadium has been the venue of important musical events. Since 2012 concert producers started to see the venue as a great place for the biggest international singers to perform. Due to its great capacity and the support of Medellín's mayor it is a better venue than the Estadio El Campin in Bogotá.
| Date | Event | Attendance | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 16, 1998 | Maná | TBA | Concert | |
| April 1, 2003 | Maná | 30,000 | Concert | |
| October 21, 2005 | RBD | 30,000 | Concert | Sold-out show. |
| August 7, 2009 | Aventura & Daddy Yankee | 33,000 | Concert | |
| August 27, 2010 | Alejandro Fernández & Marc Anthony | TBA | Concert | |
| March 1, 2012 | Maná | 20,000 | Concert | |
| November 28 & 29 2012 | Madonna | 47.587 (each night) | Concert |
- On March 24, 2012 Digital Universal Music Andina's director Alberto Marchena and entertainment group Colombia Shows confirmed through their Twitter accounts that Madonna will be performing at the stadium in her 2012 Madonna World Tour in November, 2012. Later on April 17, 2012 concert producers Ocesa Colombia and Live Nation confirmed the concert to be held in the stadium on November 28, 2012. Earlier that morning Madonna confirmed the concert through her official web site. Due to high demand for tickets for the first show, OCESA entered to negotiate a second date for the city and it won against the proposed negotiation by producers in Montevideo, Uruguay. On July 9 Digital Universal Music Andina's director Alberto Marchena and entertainment group Colombia Shows confirmed through their Twitter accounts, again, that on July 10 Madonna and OCESA will be confirming the second date for Medellin in the MDNA Tour.
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Famous quotes containing the word concerts:
“If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That make marriage a joy”
—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)