BREAKING NEWS: Luke Bryan concert planned for area farm dropped

Ohio concert being moved to a location near Columbus, to be determined.

The  Luke Bryan concert that had been planned for a farm in our neck of the woods is being moved.

Shannon Boerger of  Springfork Farms in Irwin , a community near Springfield and Urbana, confirmed that the Sept. 27 stop of Bryan's farm tour will not happen at her family's farm after all.

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Credit: Marianna Massey, Getty Images

Credit: Marianna Massey, Getty Images

The website for the tour now indicates that an Ohio concert is still planned for Sept. 27, but now at a location still to be announced in the Columbus area. It says more information will be available soon.

A message has been sent to tour organizers seeking comment.

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Credit: Screen grab from Lukebryan.com

Credit: Screen grab from Lukebryan.com

The tour includes five other farms as well:

🤠 Sept 28 at Atkins Farm in Pesotum, Ill.

🤠 Sept. 29 at Ziel Farm in Boone, Iowa

🤠 Oct. 4 at Whitehurst Cattle Company in Archer, Fla.

🤠 Oct. 5 at Misty Morning Farms in North Augusta, S.C.

🤠 Oct. 6 at Doug Yates Farms in Ringgold, Ga.

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Tickets for the tour will go on sale at 10 a.m. June 6 at lukebryan.com/FarmTour.
Tickets will be $51 in advance and $60 at the gate if still available. Parking will be $5 in advance and $20 day of. Once the show sells out, no tickets will be sold at the gate. Parking will begin at 2 p.m., and doors will open at 5 p.m. with the show beginning at 6 p.m.

Bryan — a judge on "American Idol" — awards college scholarships to students from farming families attending local colleges or universities near the tour stops.

More than 50 scholarships have been given out.

Bryan is a two-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, a five-time host of the ACM Awards and a NSAI Artist/Songwriter of the Year.

He was named a CMT Artist of the Year six consecutive years.

His hits include “Country Girl;” “Do I;” “Most people are good;” Drink Beer; “Drunk on you;” “Strip it down” and “Huntin, Fishin & Lovin’.”

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