Tickets for the first five weekends of Garth Brooks concerts at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas have sold out. Tickets for his 20 confirmed concert performances went on sale on Saturday, October 24 at 8 a.m. and were completely sold by 1 p.m.

Other relevant parts of the press release announcing the Garth Brooks tickets sold out are below:

The Wynn Las Vegas Web sites and phones were inundated with traffic for concert tickets this morning. The resort phone lines were able to accommodate 141,934 calls before the system reached maximum capacity and callers received a busy signal. Over the course of the morning, the Web site received more than 5.4 million page views with up to 40,000 people waiting in an online queue at any given time. Every effort was made to ensure the systems were operating at peak and processes will be examined to ensure improved performance when future concerts are placed on sale.

The first series of concerts will take place on December 11, 12, 13, January 1, 2, 3 and 22, 23, 24, February 12, 13, 14 and 26, 27, 28. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 p.m. Sundays.

Future Garth Brooks concert dates will be announced soon. Tickets will be priced at $125 plus a $5 service charge and a $13 tax to equal a total of $143.

Fans still stand a chance to obtain tickets for sold out concerts. Returned or unclaimed tickets will be released to a stand-by line that will form at the Wynn box office on show days.

Via: PRNewsWire

Garth Brooks Concert Tickets Sold Out at Wynn, Las Vegas is a post from: The Inquisitr

Okay so maybe Garth Brooks won’t be singing Danke Schoen or covering the works of Frank Sinatra, but the worlds best selling country singer will be following a similar road to those great singer/songwriters by performing his own Vegas act at the Wynn Las Vegas.

After announcing that he would be coming out of retirement after a 9 year hiatus, Garth announced special shows starting on December 11th 2009. Brooks will perform a Friday show, two Saturday shows and one Sunday performace, while jetting back and forth to his Oklahoma home, courtesy of the Wynn’s private jet.

Tickets for the shows will be announced in quarterly lots, with performance times possibly changing over the 5 year period of the singers contract.

The first shows will be from Dec. 11th – 13th, January 1st – 3rd and 22nd – 24th and finally February 12th – 14th and 26th – 28th. Tickets go on sale October 24th starting at $125.

The concerts will last 90 minutes and will occasionally feature guest appearances chosen by Garth Brooks.

Garth Brooks Announces 5 Year Performance Deal With Wynn Las Vegas is a post from: The Inquisitr