U2, OneRepublic coming to Louisville in June

Legendary rock band U2 will be performing at Papa John Cardinal's Stadium in June, the final North American stop on their U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017.

The highly anticipated tour, which marks the 30th anniversary of the 1987 Album "The Joshua Tree," comes to Louisville on June 16, with special guest OneRepublic. The concert begins at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at ticketmaster.com with prices starting at $35 and general admission floor tickets at $70. Priority presale for U2 Subscribers at U2.com is available from 9 a.m. Tuesday until 5 p.m. Thursday. There is a limit of four tickets for subscribers and six tickets for public sales.

U2 has already sold more than 1 million tickets for the U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, which kicks off in Vancouver on May 12 and includes stops in North America and Europe. The tour also includes U2's first ever U.S. festival headline appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival this summer and a hometown show in Dublin's Croke Park on July 22.

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Each concert includes a performance of "The Joshua Tree" in its entirety, the band said, with support from a number of special guests, including OneRepublic, Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers in North America and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in Europe. The last stop is in Brussels on Aug. 1.

For more information about the tour, visit U2.com and livenation.com.

Reporter Justin Sayers can be reached at 502-582-4252 or jsayers@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @_JustinSayers.