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Tickets go on sale today for the following shows in and around Raleigh: Toby Keith, 311, Duran Duran, Abba The Concert. Tickets for the Drake and J. Cole show go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

Tickets are going on sale today for several hot shows! 

Toby Keith and Brantley Gilbert will play the <a href="https://www.wral.com/Raleigh/Attractions/Music/Walnut-Creek-Amphitheatre/4872648/">Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek</a> on July 15. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today.

<ul><li><a href="http://www.livenation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LiveNation.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/section?tm_link=tm_logo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ticketmaster.com </a> or charge-by-phone 800-745-3000</li><li>Hardees's Thickburger box office at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion</li></ul>

ABBA The Concert  (Image from Ticketmaster)

Abba The Concert – not to be confused with the actual band Abba (they are so good they had me fooled in a blogpost I did last week!) – will perform Aug. 11 at the <a href="https://www.wral.com/Cary/Music/Attractions/Koka-Booth-Amphitheatre/4872689/">Koka Booth Amphitheatre.</a> The tribute show will feature members of the original band. Tickets go on sale today at noon.

You can get your Abba The Concert tickets through the Booth amphitheatre office, or by phone at 800-514-3849. 

311 (Image from LiveNation)

Tickets for 311 and Slightly Stoopid's July 25 show at the <a href="https://www.wral.com/Raleigh/Attractions/Music/Walnut-Creek-Amphitheatre/4872648/">Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek</a> go on sale today at 10 a.m. You can score those tickets through:

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Tickets for Duran Duran's Aug. 21 show at the <a href="https://www.wral.com/Durham/Attractions/Music/Durham-Performing-Arts-Center-DPAC/7079418/">Durham Performing Arts Center</a> go on sale today at 10 a.m. You can get them:

<ul><li><a href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/section?tm_link=tm_logo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ticketmaster.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.dpacnc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DPAC's website</a> and box office</li><li>Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 800-745-3000</li></ul>

Drake (Image from Live Nation)

And finally, tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for <a href="https://www.wral.com/drake-j-cole-set-raleigh-concert-date/10893354/">Drake's</a> May 22 show featuring local rapper J. Cole at the <a href="https://www.wral.com/Raleigh/Attractions/Music/Walnut-Creek-Amphitheatre/4872648/">Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek</a> You can get those tickets through:

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