Luke Combs will bring a Saturday night concert to Notre Dame Stadium, with Dierks Bentley, Ty Myers, Jake Worthington and Thelma & James joining as special guests. It will be the fifth concert inside the stadium since 2018, and tickets were still available on Ticketmaster as of early Friday afternoon.
The show is drawing the kind of traffic and safety plan Notre Dame usually reserves for a home football game. Campus will have an increased police presence, and some roads around the stadium will be closed or restricted to one-way traffic. Drive-up parking will be available on concert day in the Burke, Blue and Gold lots, while Holy Cross and Saint Mary’s will also take drive-up parking. Some ParkMobile pre-reserved parking remained available Friday afternoon.
Transit options are being expanded for the crowd. Transpo will run its Game Day Express route, normally used for Notre Dame football games, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. before the concert, with the last departure one hour before showtime. The same route will operate for two hours after the concert and is free for all riders. Free parking will be available in the Century Center lot, and stops will be made at the Aloft Hotel, the Century Center across from Courtyard Marriott, the DoubleTree Hotel along Washington Street and Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall.
The South Shore Line will also add an extra train from the South Bend International Airport station 90 minutes after the concert ends, though officials said a seat is not guaranteed because demand is expected to be heavy. Concertgoers are being urged to make rideshare plans in advance, another sign that the stadium show is likely to move Saturday night traffic far beyond campus.
For Notre Dame, the message is familiar: a major concert can fill the stadium, but getting tens of thousands of people in and out safely takes the same playbook used on fall Saturdays.
