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On Monday, March 16, Team Jonas fan club members in select cities will have the first opportunity to buy tickets to the summer tour. A pre-sale for CITI(R) card holders in select cities will begin on March 18 through CITI’s PrivatePass(R) program, for complete details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Tickets for the general public in select cities will be available beginning March 20 and can be purchased at www.livenation.com. Check www.jonasbrothers.com for specific cities and times for pre-sales and public on-sales.

“The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009” will present the band’s most ambitious production yet and will include a massive 140-foot plus stage centered in the arena that aims to give a larger number of Jonas Brothers fans a closer, more interactive live concert than they’ve ever experienced before. The show will feature cutting edge technology used in a one-of-a-kind circular water screen, multi-color laser effects, motion automated video screens, a giant crane levitating over the audience plus other surprises that will bring the tour to the next level of concert entertainment.

“This tour is going to be about really connecting with our fans,” says Joe Jonas. “We’ve got new music that’s taking us in new directions plus a mind-blowing production that’s going to surprise everyone. We want to give the audience the summer concert they’re not going to ever forget.”

“The Jonas Brothers are a worldwide phenomenon,” said Jason Garner, Chief Executive Officer of Global Music at Live Nation. “In 2008 their global tour included 113 concerts and drew nearly 1.2 million fans. The band is now more popular than ever — with a new movie, album, TV show and book — and we are optimistic that this summer’s tour attendance will reflect that popularity.”

“As presenting sponsor of the Jonas Brothers’ summer tour for the second year in a row, we’re planning a lot of excitement for Jonas Brothers fans beginning with the first tour stop in Dallas on June 20,” said Cindy Syracuse, senior director, cultural marketing, Burger King Corp.” We’ll be announcing plans for the ultimate HAVE IT YOUR WAY(R) Jonas Brothers 2009 experience in support of the tour over the next few months.”

Special guests on “The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009” are American Idol winner and Jive Records’ platinum-selling artist, Jordin Sparks, and rising stars, Honor Society.

Dates, cities and venues for the “The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009” are below. Dates and venues are subject to change.

  June

  June 20            Dallas, TX              New Cowboys Stadium

  June 22            Tulsa, OK               BOKCenter

  June 24            Denver, CO              PepsiCenter

  June 26            Nampa, ID               IdahoCenter

  June 27            Portland, OR            Rose Garden Arena

  June 28            Tacoma, WA              TacomaDome

  June 30            Vancouver, BC           General Motors Place


  July

  July 2             Edmonton, AB            Rexall Place

  July 4             Salt Lake  City, UT     Stadium Of Fire (on sale now)

  July 5             Winnipeg, MB            MTS Centre

  July 7             Omaha, NE               QwestCenter

  July 8             Minneapolis, MN         TargetCenter

  July 9             Milwaukee, WI           BradleyCenter

  July 10            Rosemont, IL            Allstate Arena

  July 13            Washington, DC          VerizonCenter

  July 14            East Rutherford, NJ     IZODCenter

  July 17            Boston, MA              TD BanknorthGarden

  July 20            Uniondale, NY           NassauColiseum

  July 24            Philadelphia, PA        WachoviaCenter

  July 25            Pittsburgh, PA          Mellon Arena

  July 26            Detroit, MI             Palace Of Auburn Hills

  July 28            St. Louis, MO           ScottradeCenter

  July 29            Kansas City, MO         SprintCenter


  August

  August 1           Las Vegas, NV           MandalayBayEventsCenter

  August 3           San Jose, CA            HP Pavilion at San Jose

  August 4           Sacramento, CA          ARCO Arena

  August 5           Fresno, CA              Save Mart Center

  August 7           Los Angeles, CA         StaplesCenter

  August 11          Phoenix, AZ             Jobing.com Arena

  August 13          San Antonio, TX         AT&TCenter

  August 14          Houston, TX             ToyotaCenter

  August 15          New Orleans, LA         New Orleans Arena

  August 16          Birmingham, AL          BJCC

  August 18          Tampa, FL               St. Pete Times Forum

  August 19          Ft.Lauderdale, FL       BankAtlanticCenter

  August 21          Jacksonville, FL        JacksonvilleVeterans' Memorial

  August 22          Atlanta, GA             Philips Arena

  August 23          Lexington, KY           Rupp Arena

  August 25          Nashville, TN           SommetCenter

  August 26          Columbus, OH            Nationwide Arena

  August 27          Cleveland, OH           Quicken Loans Arena

  August 29          Montreal, QC            BellCentre

  August 30          Toronto, ON             RogersCentre

  August 31          Ottawa, ON              Scotiabank Place

The Jonas Brothers became a pop music phenomenon in 2008 with the release of their platinum-selling album, A Little Bit Longer, and two tours that earned the band a spot among the top selling tours of the year. They also won an American Music Award for Breakthrough Artist and were recently nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Artist Category.

Further information and all the latest tour developments, please visit the following websites: www.jonasbrothers.com or www.livenation.com.

ABOUT TEAM JONAS:

The Team Jonas fan club is the ultimate destination for fans of the Jonas Brothers. A one-year premium membership in Team Jonas is $34.99 and includes a welcome gift, frequent contests (including chances to win meet & greet passes) and giveaways, videos and photos from the road, and the chance to buy four concert tickets per membership before seats go on sale to the public. Purchase fan club membership to take advantage of fan club ticket sales on Monday, March 16. Please note, fan club membership does not guarantee availability or location of tickets. Visit www.jonasbrothersfanclub.com or www.teamjonas.com to join Team Jonas.

ABOUT LIVE NATION:

Live Nation’s mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry’s first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company, please visit www.livenation.com/investors.

ABOUT BURGER KING CORPORATION

The BURGER KING(R) system operates more than 11,700 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING(R) restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America’s 1,000 largest corporations and Ad Week named it one of the top three industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades. To learn more about Burger King Corp., please visit the company’s Web site at www.bk.com.

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