Travis Kelce’s Tight End University Is Returning With Tight Ends & Friends Show in 2026: Here’s the Date
Taylor Swift, who is engaged to the NFL star, gave a surprise performance the year before.
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One year after Taylor Swift blew attendees’ minds when she hopped on stage unannounced for a surprise performance at fiancé Travis Kelce‘s Tight End University event, TEU and partner Sports Illustrated announced the return of the Tight Ends & Friends concert for 2026 on Wednesday (May 20).
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While the lineup will drop at a later date, it was announced that the show will take place June 23 at The Pinnacle in Nashville. Tickets are on sale now via Tight End University’s website.
Produced in partnership with SI‘s parent company, Authentic Brands Group, the concert is part of TEU’s annual week of programming for fans 18+, with the press release promising “top-tier country music talent, high-energy performances and special guests.” This year’s Tight End University will take place between June 22-25 and, in addition to the concert, will allow the public to attend the training and field work.
TEU was formed by famed NFL tight ends Kelce, San Francisco 49ers’ George Kittle and former Bears/Panthers player Greg Olsen, with last year’s inaugural event featuring a set from Kane Brown, as well as Swift performing a surprise “Shake It Off” with Brown’s band.
“Tight Ends and Friends is everything TEU stands for: the brotherhood, the celebration, the fans and the moments that nobody sees coming,” said Olsen in a statement. “What we built last year in Nashville was something truly special, and this summer we are taking it to another level entirely.”
Kelce said Swift’s surprise performance last year was so last minute that she didn’t even have time to rehearse. “We’re in Nashville, she grew up in Nashville — she moved there when she was younger,” Kelce said on his New Heights podcast last July. “We had this plan for a while that we were going to have some fun with the tight ends. I won’t say when the idea came up, but when we were there at Tight End and Friends, and we knew there was a professional like Kane Brown, who can just, he can figure it out. He’s a pro. Tay just kind of went up to him and the band and went, ‘Hey, if you guys are down, I’ll go up there, play a song and see if we can pop the roof off this place.’”
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