2025 is a huge year for live music in Central Floria, including outdoor shows headlined by the likes of AC/DC, Post Malone, Shakira, Jelly Roll and more!

Central Florida has an eclectic music scene, and in 2025 we have some of the biggest superstars performing huge outdoor, stadium concerts at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
In the coming months we have huge tours comint to Tampa and Orlando, including AC/DC’s POWER UP TOUR, Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, Post Malone's BIG ASS Stadium Tour and more!
Country Thunder Music Festival Florida
May 2 - 4
Country Thunder Florida has moved west, moving from Kissimmee to Tampa, with headliners, Riley Green, Blake Shelton and Jelly Roll taking to the stage at Raymond James Stadium.

The 2025 lineup also includes Ella Langley, Jake Owen, Ashley McBryde, Dillon Carmichael, Chayce Beckham, Clint Black, Owen Riegling, Bayker Blankenship, Drew Baldridge, Abby Anderson, The Kentucky Headhunters, Dallas Smith, Angie K, Nolan Sotillo, and many more.
Fans can expect the high-energy, family-friendly environment that Country Thunder is famous for, with food, drinks, and activities throughout the stadium.

AC/DC Power Up Tour 2025
May 16
Don’t miss your chance to see AC/DC’s POWER UP TOUR 2025 at Raymond James Stadium with special guest The Pretty Reckless.
The tour shares its name with their 2020 album, POWER UP, which bowed at #1 in 21 countries. In 2024, AC/DCcompleted a European leg of the POWER UP Tour, packing the biggest stadiums on the continent in the process.

POWER UP notably notched their third #1 debut on the Billboard 200 and exploded as one of the best-selling albums of 2020 worldwide,” . It closed out the year on Rolling Stone’s “Top 50 Albums of 2020” and Consequence of Sound’s “Top 50 Albums of 2020.” Plus, it garnered GRAMMY Award nominations in the categories of “Best Rock Album” and “Best Rock Performance” and “Best Music Video” for “Shot In The Dark."

Shakira
June 4
Shakira, Shakira! Due to unprecedented fan demand, the legend expands to stadiums on her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, catch her at Camping World Stadium on June 4!
Known for her electrifying and energetic performances, Shakira will showcase songs from her latest album alongside iconic hits from her outstanding catalog.
Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour is a tribute to Shakira’s popular music, with a look toward the future. Inspired by her album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, this tour promotes empowerment and strength, which Shakira seeks to convey to multiple generations of fans — those who have never seen her live and those who have been waiting for her return for many years.

With a new production designed with the highest technology, her biggest hits, new songs, and several surprises, the tour aims to be an unforgettable experience, both visually and musically. In this return to the stages of Latin America, Shakira seeks to create a space where her fans can share and celebrate with her the power of personal rebirth like a diamond that is forged under pressure and emerges stronger and brighter after facing adversity.

Metallica M72 World Tour ’25
June 6 & 8
Rock icons Metallica have extended the M72 Tour into 2025, adding 21 North American dates including 2 massive nights of rock at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa.
Support will come from Limp Bizkit and and Ice Nine Kills on June 6, with the June 8 concert featuring Pantera and Suicidal Tendencies.
Metallica, a creative powerhouse lauded as one of rock’s preeminent bands, continues to break new ground with the dynamic, in-the-round production for the M72 World Tour. Since opening in April 2023 in Amsterdam, M72 has seen Metallica play to some three million fans.

Throughout the tour, the band’s sound is immersing the entire audience — at full bandwidth across a broad stereo landscape — through a Meyer Sound system comprising a record 288 PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeakers.
Maximizing fan engagement, the stage design for M72 is in the round, including an “O” shaped stage with multiple elevation changes for the band.
The “Snake Pit” was brought back in the M72 tour’s stage design, allowing roughly 1,000 Metallica fans to get up close and personal with the performers in the center of the stage. The Snake Pit has been a fan favorite feature of many Metallica tours dating back to the 1980-90s.

Post Malone The BIG ASS Stadium Tour
June 10
Post Malone is bringing The BIG ASS Stadium Tour to Camping World Stadium on June 10 with Jelly Roll and Sierra Ferrell!
Known for redefining the modern concert experience with his genre-blending sound and electrifying stage presence, Post will bring a massive production to Orlando.
The BIG ASS Stadium Tour, promises fans a concert experience filled with a mix of his biggest hits, fan favorites, and brand new songs from his sixth studio album, F-1 Trillion,

Post released his debut country album, F-1 Trillion which landed at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was just nominated for a GRAMMY award for “Best Country Album.” Included on the album was hit single “I Had Some Help” featuring Morgan Wallen which crash landed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained at #1 for six consecutive weeks.
“I Had Some Help” also landed the #1 title on Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for 2024 and was just nominated for a GRAMMY for “Best Country Song” and “Best Country Duo/Group Performance.”

Stray Kids
June 14
You Make Stray Kids Stay! Come experience Stray Kids World Tour <dominATE NORTH AMERICA> at Orlando's Camping World Stadium on June 14.
Stray Kids is JYP Entertainment’s 8-member boy band formed in March 2018. The group’s name “Stray Kids” stands for their determination to break and escape from tradition, formalities, and the old system. All members not only are talented in vocals, rap, and performance, but have also been credited for producing the majority of Stray Kids’ unique discography.

My Chemical Romance
September 13
Join My Chemical Romance as they perform at Raymond James Stadium with special guests Evanescence.
My Chemical Romance (Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Frank Iero, and Mikey Way) will be celebrating The Black Parade this coming summer. The seminal album was named one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”
The band will be performing the full album in only 10 cities across North America, produced by Live Nation, with each show featuring a different hand-selected artist as the opening act.

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