Shakira to play Fresno for the first time — at unusual and huge concert venue
Shakira just added Fresno to the list of cities she’s hitting on her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour.
That, in itself, is newsworthy, given the popularity of the hip-swinging mega-star (Billboard’s greatest Latin female artist of all time) and the fact that it will be her first performance in Fresno.
But this is also a stadium tour, which means the Colombian singer is performing at massive venues like Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and Oracle Park in San Francisco.
In Fresno, she’ll perform at Valley Children’s Stadium at Fresno State.
The Aug. 7 concert follows a two-night run at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and will be the last U.S. date on the tour, after which the singer will head to Mexico City, where she will play multiple dates at Estadio GNP Seguros.
Tickets, presales and VIP for Shakira in Fresno
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. June 25 at Livenation.com with presales for Citi cardmembers beginning 10 a.m. June 23. According to Live Nation, the tour offers several VIP experiences, include premium tickets, meet-and-greet photo opportunities, access to the pre-show VIP lounge, exclusive merchandise and more. Ticket prices have yet to be announced.
A first for Valley Children’s Stadium
Fresno’s history is littered with some fairly substantial stadium shows.
The Rolling Stones played Ratcliffe Stadium, which is still used by Fresno City College, in 1965.
The Police headlined a concert there in 1983 with the Thompson Twins, Oingo Boingo and The Fixx. Willie Nelson played there in 1988, according to the Concert Archives website.
Shakira’s concert performance will be a first for Valley Children’s Stadium and comes at a time when the university is looking to diversify its revenue stream.
The stadium opened in 1980, was expanded in 1991 and had its naming rights sold in a $10 million deal in 2022, but it’s been used nearly exclusively for Fresno State football. The most notable non-sporting event at the stadium was a four-day Central Valley Crusade with pastor Billy Graham in 2001. It drew 50,000 each night.
Concerts of this size are exceedingly rare for Fresno, and Shakira could have the largest single-night concert in the city’s history, according to the music industry trade publication Pollstar.
Madonna sold a combined 20,154 tickets at two shows at the Save Mart Center Arena in 2006, Pollstar says. Garth Brooks did 51,743 at four shows at the arena in 2016. Regional Mexican band Marca MP, with Peso Pluma as an opener, sold 21,097 at Chukchansi Park in 2023 — a record for the stadium, according to The Fresno Grizzlies.
Valley Children’s Stadium has a capacity of 40,727 for football.
That doesn’t include on-field seating that looks like it will be added as part of the tour’s production setup. Shakira has hit that kind numbers in markets like Orlando and Charlotte, according to Pollstar.
This story was originally published June 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM.