Justin Timberlake announces Rupp Arena date, fresh from Super Bowl halftime show

The night after starring in the Super Bowl halftime show, Justin Timberlake added dates to his Man of the Woods tour, including a stop at Lexington’s Rupp Arena.

The Sept. 19 concert will be Timberlake’s first solo stand at the home of the Wildcats. He did come through in 2000 as the leader of the boy band *NSYNC. At the time, Timberlake’s crew was in something of a battle for the title of leading boy band with the Backstreet Boys, hometown favorites with Kentuckians Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson in the lineup. Since then, Timberlake has collaborated several times with Kentuckian Chris Stapleton, including the duet “Say Something” off of Timerlake’s new “Man of the Woods” album, which dropped Friday. Stapleton announced his own Rupp date last week.

Since departing *NSYNC, Timberlake has released four or five solo records, depending on how you classify the two parts of “The 20/20 Experience,” charting No. 1 hits such as “SexyBack” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” Sunday night, he returned to the Super Bowl halftime stage for the third time, the first since the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” incident with Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl. The Sept. 19 Rupp date will be the first date of the fall leg of the tour, after a late-summer swing through Europe.

Tickets for the show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 19. An American Express presale will begin Feb. 14. Ticket prices have not been announced yet. Prices in other markets are ranging from high double digits to law $200s ($84-$225 in Detroit, for example). Visit the Rupp website for more information.

This story was originally published February 5, 2018 at 10:03 AM with the headline "Justin Timberlake announces Rupp Arena date, fresh from Super Bowl halftime show."