Jelly Roll Headlines Jingle Ball at iHeartRadio in Fort Worth

Country musician Jelly Roll, who has visited North Texas several times over the past few months, will headline iHeartRadio 106.1 KISS FM’s Jingle Ball 2023 on Nov. 28 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth.

Advance ticket sales will be available at 10 a.m. Oct. 3 for Capitol One cardholders and at noon Oct. 6 for the general public. For each event, a portion of ticket sales will be donated to the beneficiary organization, and exclusive packages will be offered through online auctions leading up to the events.

Jingle Ball will work with the Craddick Foundation’s Kidd’s Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children with chronic or terminal illnesses or children with physical disabilities.

Jingle Ball 2023 will stop in 11 cities starting in November and ending in mid-December. The Fort Worth stop will be missing some of the tour’s biggest names, including Olivia Rodrigo, SZA, Nicki Minaj, Usher, Niall Horan and Sabrina Carpenter, who will headline the tour’s other stops.

Jelly Roll will be joined by rappers Flo Rida, Doechii, Paul Russell and Kaliii, boy bands Big Time Rush and P1Harmony, and rock band LANY.

Dickies Arena has been the site of the annual concert for the past four years. The first was in 2019, when the site opened. In 2020, the concert was virtual. Lil Nas X was one of the headliners for 2021, and rapper Jack Harlow was the headliner last year.

Jelly Roll will be busy too. He will perform at the Jingle Ball in Chicago (December 4), Detroit (December 5), New York (December 8), Washington (December 11) and Philadelphia (December 12). Arlington-based Pentatonix will also perform Jelly Roll at the Madison Square Garden stop in New York City.

Jelly Roll, born Jason Bradley DeFord in 1984, performed at the Dos Equis Pavilion in Dallas on September 9th. May 23 as a stop on his Backroad Baptism Tour. The Nashville singer performed May 8 at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth for a concert honoring first responders, veterans, military personnel and Gold Star families. On May 11, he performed a duet with Laney Wilson at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Frisco.

Jelly Roll was also featured in a viral TikTok video that showed the singer at a Whataburger in Dallas. In the video, Jelly Roll sent a $1,000 tip—$200 for each of the five night shift employees.

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iHeartMedia and ABC also announced a new multi-year agreement under which ABC will be the exclusive television partner for the event. The iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour stops will be part of the network’s special, airing Dec. 21. The special will be available on demand and on Hulu the next day.

“Our annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball lineup is one of the most anticipated this year, and we are excited to finally reveal who will be joining us on the road this season,” said Tom Poleman, iHeartMedia Director of Programming. .