Travis Kelce is following his back-to-back Tremendous Bowl wins with the return of his music pageant Kelce Jam.
Lil Wayne, Diplo and a couple of Chainz will carry out on the Could 18 occasion going down at The Azura Amphitheater in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas. Followers can register on-line at KelceJam.com for pre-sale tickets, which begin at $49.99 and go on sale Friday. Takis will livestream the occasion throughout the NFL star and Kelce Jam’s social channels.
“It was such a blast that I needed to do it once more this yr. I’m so excited,” Kelce tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I needed to maintain it contemporary and maintain it new, so this yr we requested Lil Wayne, Diplo and a couple of Chainz to come back out and carry out. And naturally, we nonetheless bought DJ Irie and my man, DJ E-V, leaping it off, the hometown child. We bought to indicate the hometown love.”
He continues, “But it surely’s going to be a lot, enjoyable and I can not wait to get again out and have fun with KC, man. It’s only a blast each single time we are able to get collectively to have fun these back-to-back [Super Bowl wins] one final time.”
Kelce and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs gained their second consecutive Tremendous Bowl this February, defeating the San Francisco 49ers this yr and the Philadelphia Eagles in 2023. The tight finish claimed his first Tremendous Bowl in 2020.
Travis Kelce.
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Final yr’s inaugural Kelce Jam featured 20,000 attendees and was headlined by Rick Ross and MGK, whom Kelce carried out alongside onstage. Along with music, this yr’s occasion, offered by Jim Beam, will embody native Kansas Metropolis restaurant pop-ups and interactive activations. Kelce is partnering once more with Medium Uncommon, the corporate behind main pre-Tremendous Bowl occasions like Shaq’s Enjoyable Home with Shaquille O’Neal, Gronk Seashore with Rob Gronkowski, Sports activities Illustrated The Occasion and Man’s Flavortown Tailgate with Man Fieri.
Kelce says he referred to as Medium Uncommon to assist him produce his pageant after attending Gronk Seashore on the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas.
“We’ve discovered a successful mannequin that enables us to work with a few of the largest names in sports activities and leisure to execute their visions for fan experiences on the very highest degree,” says Joe Silberzweig, Medium Uncommon’s co-founder and co-CEO. “By partnering with expertise 50/50 because of this it’s not a simply celeb look or endorsement alternative, however a pageant that’s actually constructed on their DNA.”
Provides Adam Richman, co-founder and co-CEO of Medium Uncommon: “It’s actually exceptional to see simply what the Travis Kelce impact is. Followers lined up final yr at 5 a.m., some even camped out and confirmed out for the pageant regardless of rain. This yr, we’re already feeling that pleasure tenfold, from the followers to our model companions. It actually says rather a lot about Travis, a world tremendous star, that he needs to deliver Kelce Jam again to Kansas Metropolis and have fun at house.”
In an interview, 34-year-old Kelce talks about his pageant, what he realized about producing stay occasions from pop star girlfriend Taylor Swift and the success of his podcast along with his brother Jason.
You ended up onstage finally yr’s pageant — will we see you performing once more?
I don’t learn about performing. I’m going to depart that as much as the professionals, however you’ll see me up there with the mic having some enjoyable and making an attempt to maintain the group hype, and everyone excited for the subsequent act. However yeah, I can’t assist myself, man. As soon as I bought a mic in my hand, you by no means know what I’ll do.
Travis Kelce.
This pageant is considered one of your methods of exhibiting love again to Kansas Metropolis. Discuss your connection to town and the way its power helps you present up in life and the sphere.
Oh yeah, man, Chiefs Kingdom, I’ve been so lucky to land in one of many largest sports activities cities, not to mention one of many largest franchises within the Nationwide Soccer League due to the fan base. And never solely that however moving into the group, and being part of the group with my foundations 87 & Working and all of the issues we’ve performed for the children within the space, it’s simply so embracing of a metropolis that I completely love being part of it. After which positive sufficient, Arrowhead being the loudest stadium on this planet, we hear them each single stadium we go to. Arrowhead being the loudest stadium on this planet is such an higher hand and such a pleasure to have. And I cherish each single sport and each single time I get out in entrance of the group.
Lil Wayne is headlining, and he has like 200 hits. What’s your favourite Lil Wayne track and why?
My favourite Lil Wayne track? I’m not going to lie. I’m fairly excited that I bought him and a couple of Chainz within the constructing as a result of my favourite track is “Duffle Bag Boy.” I nonetheless hearken to it to this present day earlier than video games and every thing.
What was the expertise like doing the pageant for the primary time final yr, and are there issues that you just need to do in a different way the second time round?
To be sincere, I used to be having a lot enjoyable, I couldn’t even think about it getting higher. However I believe this yr with just a bit bit extra buzz to it, everyone had a tremendous time. There was such good suggestions that we’ve got increasingly more sponsors. And this yr we’re undoubtedly nonetheless going to have the meals side to it. So, Uber Eats in Service provider Row. We’ll have native spots from KC, a number of KC’s favorites. After which on high of that, clearly, some unbelievable music. However I believe final yr went so wonderful and so clean and so good for the primary yr that it’ll solely maintain getting higher and higher because the years go on.
Final yr, you earned rave critiques for internet hosting Saturday Night time Reside and also you talked about probably doing scripted comedy. Is that one thing you’ve been capable of discover?
It nonetheless is, and I’m out right here in L.A. making an attempt to get extra comfy within the leisure world earlier than we begin again up with this soccer factor, realizing that that’s my fundamental focus in my life, and it’ll all the time be that till I’m performed taking part in. However I’m undoubtedly nonetheless dabbling within the scripted world, the leisure world, and we’ll see the place that highway takes me. I’m extraordinarily excited, however on the similar time, I do know I’m a little bit of an novice in that world, so I undoubtedly bought to get comfy and, I don’t know, put my very own creativity on it.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
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You’re producing your second pageant and collaborating within the stay music area, whereas Taylor Swift placed on one of many largest stay music occasions of all time final yr together with her Eras Tour. Did you study something from watching her try this?
(Laughs). I did: Don’t try to be Taylor, that’s what I realized. Yeah, she’s on an entire different stratosphere. She’s one of the best at what she does for a cause. It’s as a result of she’s so articulate and simply very dialed into each single factor that she does. And that’s the great thing about it. I’d be foolish if I ever tried to take something from what she does, different than simply benefit from the those that present up. I believe that’s one factor I may most likely take away: She actually pertains to the individuals she’s performing in entrance of, and so I’ll take that.
Her four-hour live performance will not be simple to do…
It’s spectacular.
Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce.
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You and your brother’s podcast, New Heights, was nominated for a Webby this morning. Have you ever been shocked by the robust response?
I imply, indubitably, I’ve been shocked. I believe everyone’s sort of shocked on the way it’s taken off the way in which it has. However we simply began off by desirous to showcase our brotherhood and our similarities realizing that we’re actually two totally different walks of life. However once you get us round one another, you may see why we’re brothers, and also you see how a lot love, and the way a lot appreciation we’ve got for one another for attending to the place we’re in our lives. And we needed to showcase that. We needed to provide individuals a firsthand have a look at what it’s prefer to be on the lunch desk or on the dinner desk with Jason and Travis Kelce. And I believe it’s simply been so cool to see how everyone’s appreciated that, not to mention the Tremendous Bowl that we had, and having the ability to showcase our household and that side. I believe it’s simply been simply an unbelievable quantity of help that I can’t be extra grateful for.