Garth Brooks Rocks Joe’s In Chicago At First Dive Bar Show

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Garth Brooks packed Joe’s on Weed Street in Chicago Monday night (July 15) at the first in a series of his upcoming Dive Bar concerts. Tickets for the show were available to win exclusively from the Chicago country stations US 99 and BIG 95 5.

Garth went live on Facebook for a special Inside Studio G and asked for suggestions for his next dive bar on the seven-stop tour then took the stage, and fans can tune in to his Inside Studio G to find out where the next stop is on The Dive Bar Tour.

The event was also for a good cause, since Garth recently teamed with Seagram’s 7 to declare this the “summer of Dive Bars.” As part of the celebration, Brooks and Seagram’s 7 have committed to securing 700,000 pledges this summer from dive bar patrons across the country at jointhepact.com.

Brooks performs the new single, “Dive Bar” tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live, while he and Blake Shelton will perform the song for the first time together live in Boise, Idaho on July 19 as part of Garth’s stadium tour.

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