‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Coming to Iowa, Minnesota in 2025

We're still months away from turning the calendar to 2025, but it's already looking to be a year that's going to feature some big laughs coming our way with the announcement that comedy legend 'Weird Al' Yankovic is bringing his latest tour to Iowa and Minnesota

The 2025 Bigger & Weirder Tour will stop in the Hawkeye State, June 27, at the Des Moines Civic Center June 27.

One night later (June 28), Al descends on the North Star State with a date at Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Welch.

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Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born in Downey, California in October of 1959.

He began playing the accordion at age seven and as a teenager began writing parodies of popular pop and rock songs. Al's big break came in 1979 when, while enrolled as an architecture student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, his take-off of The Knack's 'My Sharona', 'My Bologna', got airtime on the popular Dr. Demento Show on Los Angeles radio.

Al followed up that success a year later with 'Another One Rides the Bus', a parody of Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust'.

In 1984, Al's career reach new heights when he landed in the Billboard Top 40 with 'Eat It' (#12), a spoof of Michael Jackson's #1 single 'Beat It' from the Thriller album in 1983.

Overall, Al has three Top 40 singles to his credit and three top ten albums, including Mandatory Fun, which topped the charts for one week in August of 2014.

'Weird Al' is a five-time Grammy Award winner and has sold more than 10o million albums worldwide.

Tickets for the Des Moines and Welch shows go on sale Friday (September 27) at 10:00 AM.