The 2nd annual Kelce Jam — the new music competition hosted by Travis Kelce — has been scheduled. The event will return to Kansas City on Saturday, Could 18 with headlining performances from Lil Wayne, Diplo, and 2 Chainz. “Kansas Metropolis are you completely ready to fight for your ideal to social gathering!?” the Kansas Town Chiefs player wrote on Instagram though asserting the occasion.
“Kansas City, Kelce Jam is back infant! I’m excited to once all over again welcome supporters for the greatest day of songs, food items, and an electric powered experience celebrating Kansas City,” Kelce extra in a push statement. “Last 12 months you exceeded my anticipations when about 20,000 admirers showed up in the rain to ‘fight for your correct to celebration,’ and this 12 months promises to be even extra more than the leading as we welcome Lil Wayne, Diplo, and 2Chainz to the phase!”
Kelce Jam will host 20,000 attendees into the Azura Amphitheater for seven several hours, kicking off at 5 p.m. Extra performers will be introduced in the guide up to the competition, which also options DJ Irie and DJ E-V. Standard sale for the event will begin on Friday, April 5 at 10 a.m. CT. Presales will operate all over the week.
Last year’s event was helmed by Equipment Gun Kelly, Loud Luxurious, and Rick Ross through Draft Weekend 2023. “It was these types of a blast that I experienced to do it once more this yr. I’m so psyched,” Kelce told The Hollywood Reporter. “I required to hold it fresh and continue to keep it new.”
He included: “It’s going to be so a great deal, pleasurable and I cannot wait around to get back again out and celebrate with KC, man. It’s just a blast each single time we can get together to celebrate these back-to-again [Super Bowl wins] one particular last time.”
Kelce’s celebration of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 2nd Tremendous Bowl earn in a row kicked off in the hours after the match ended, when he was spotted at after functions in the course of Las Vegas. Taylor Swift was with him for a few of these, such as just one where by the couple shared a sweet minute all through an EDM remix of “Love Story.” The staff designed their way back again to Las Vegas a couple months after for however one more bash, that time stopping in at Wynn Las Vegas to look at Marshmello complete at his ongoing residency at XS Nightclub.
As far as musicianship goes, Kelce is familiar with when to remain in his lane — it’s a lesson Swift imparted on him. “She’s on a total other stratosphere. She’s the best at what she does for a cause. It is mainly because she’s so articulate and just very dialed into each and every one factor that she does,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’d be silly if I at any time tried to consider anything from what she does, other than just appreciate the persons that clearly show up. I imagine that is 1 issue I could almost certainly take absent: She seriously relates to the people she’s executing in front of, and so I’ll acquire that.”
Continue to, the athlete is fully commited to staying Kelce Jam’s resident buzz man, joking: “You’ll see me up there with the mic obtaining some enjoyable and making an attempt to maintain the crowd buzz, and everyone energized for the upcoming act. But yeah, I can’t aid myself, person. The moment I got a mic in my hand, you hardly ever know what I’ll do.”