UTEP Office of Special Events ‘excited’ to bring another stadium tour to El Paso

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The UTEP Office of Special Events is the entity behind bringing all the big concerts to El Paso, either to the Don Haskins Center or to Sun Bowl Stadium.

Last year, El Paso saw Coldplay; this year, BTS and Post Malone; and now, Chris Brown and Usher are set to gather thousands of fans and community members inside the Sun Bowl.

According to Live Nation's website, the artist presale sign-up will be open from April 14 to April 21; you can sign up here.

The official presale will happen on April 23.

"Our successes, our current success, will not guarantee us a future success; it's the preparation we do to get there that will guarantee future, better, and bigger things to come," said the Assistant Vice President of UTEP's Office of Special Events, Jorge Vazquez. "We are very excited to be able to announce yet another stadium tour in 2026."

"I think it's a continuation of a series of events that we've been planning for a long time, and to see them coming to fruition is definitely a great accomplishment for the city, for the team that is helping me make this happen, so I'm super excited."

Assistant VP Vazquez encouraged the community and everyone going to these big events and concerts to always check their social media and webpages for recommendations, parking and prohibited items at all local venues.

Here's an updated guide with more information if you're heading to any upcoming concert at the Sun Bowl.

"Being opportunistic in the right sense of the word has been very, very successful for us and being able to build a team that can produce these mega, mega shows has been key, because we have to earn the respect, we have to earn the business," said Assistant VP Vazquez. "When they trust you to bring these types of huge events, you better deliver, you better deliver, because the market is doing its job to sell out these stadiums and that's great."

"We have proven that this city, El Paso, can also be a destination for visitors from all over the world to buy the ticket, to buy the airplane and, you know, come to our hotels; that's proven." "I think we are an emerging market; we really have proven that and I think we're a market that has proven to be reckoned with," Assistant VP Vazquez said.