Bud Walton Arena will host Alan Jackson on his farewell tour

The home of Arkansas Razorbacks basketball will host one of the most popular Country artists from the 1990s. Alan Jackson's farewell tour, Last Call: One More For the Road, has picked Bud Walton Arena as one of its stops.

BWA is no stranger to concerts. Walmart has used the 20,000-person capacity stadium to put on concerts for its shareholders for years. The university also holds student-only events annually. But this is the first time the public can buy tickets to see a concert in BWA.

It's never made sense that the space is mostly wasted during the off-season. Schools around the country offer up venues and create additional streams of income. After Garth Brooks' hugely successful Stadium Tour series in 2022 that sold 70,000 tickets in 90 minutes and broke Razorback Stadium's attendance record, maybe the leadership at Arkansas has finally seen the light.

The concert is scheduled for August 28, 2024. If you plan on going, tickets for the concert go on sale on Friday, June 7.