BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Matt Rife Stay Golden Tour X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Matt Rife Stay Golden Tour DESCRIPTION:This show is 18+\n\n\n\nComedian/Actor/Producer/Writer/Autho r Matt Rife has cemented himself as one of biggest stand ups in the worl d through his top performing Netflix special and his remarkable engageme nt on social media where he has amassed over 39.4 million followers\, an d more than 3 billion views globally. \;\n\n\n\nThis December\, Rife will release his first book\, \;Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me\, \; a memoir from Simon &\; Schuster. In his book\, Rife reveals (without apology\, of course) what led him to becoming comedy’s biggest lightn ing rod before he reached thirty\, in a story full of bold and hysterica l takes on everything from rap battles with ex-cons to Matt’s struggle s with depression and his many brushes with failure before finally hitti ng it big.\n\n\n\nRife is selling-out theaters and arenas around the glo be and is currently on his biggest tour to-date with Live Nation\, the†¯Matt Rife: ProbleMATTic World Tour. Last fall\, Rife sold out 4 shows a t The Dolby Theater in Hollywood\, where the Academy Awards are held. In December 2023\, Rife set a record at the Mohegan Sun Arena with five ni ghts of consecutive sold out performances and this summer he became the youngest stand-up comedian to sell-out the Hollywood Bowl with over 17\, 000 tickets sold.\n\n\n\nHis current tour sold over 600\,000 tickets in under 48 hours\, to become one of the largest comedy tours in over 20 ye ars. He joined Taylor Swift as the only other live act to break Ticketma ster’s website due to demand. After the success of his tour\, Rife r ecently signed on for a second world tour with Live Nation. He will also star in the feature film\, \;Rolling Loud\, \;an R-rated comedy co-produced by Live Nation Productions and American High\, set to rel ease in 2025. \;\n\n\n\nRife brings forth his refreshingly genuine p resence along with elevated material that is quick witted and vulnerable . From a small town near Columbus Ohio\, Matt started performing at th e age of fifteen then moved out to Los Angeles two years later where he began his career in Hollywood.\n\n\n\nIn 2021\, Rife self-produced and distributed through YouTube his first one-hour comedy special\, "On ly Fans". In April 2023\, the comedian bet on himself again and self-rel eased his second stand-up special\, "Matthew Steven Rife" on YouTu be. The special was taped in Austin\, TX and is dedicated to his big gest role model\, his grandfather Steven who had recently passed. Only a couple months later\, Rife decided to release a crowd work special\, Walking Red Flag on YouTube\, which has amassed over 13 million views.  He also earned placement on the Forbes list for Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023 and top creators list in 2024. \;\n\n\n\nOn November 15th\, 20 23\, the comedian released his highly anticipated third stand-up special \, Matt Rife: Natural Selection on Netflix\, which garnered outstanding numbers including over 10.3 million views in its first two weeks and ear ning a Top 10 ranking in 42 countries including #1 in US\, Canada\, and South Africa. \;Natural Selection was the most viewed special on N etflix for the second half of 2023. From the overwhelming success of his first Netflix special\, Rife inked a two-special deal along with a deve lopment deal for a gym/workplace comedy series that he will write and st ar in. The deal with Rife included Netflix’s first ever crowd work spe cial\, \;Lucid\, which debuted on August 13th\, 2024 and again cem ented him in the top 10 most watched shows in 37 countries on the stream er for two weeks.\n\n\n\nIn addition to stand-up\, he made his televisio n debut on MTV’s Wild 'N Out as the youngest cast member in history for four seasons before moving on to other MTV properties\, such as host ing the reboot of TRL and appearing on The Challenge. Other credits in clude Fresh Off The Boat\, NBC’s comedy competition show Bring The Fun ny\, and Netflix’s That 90’s Show. URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/matt-rife-stay-golden-to ur/ UID:urn:uuid:8a33532b-1c92-40dc-9dcf-6bbdadbc9346 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260524T230644Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250712T200000 LOCATION:1 Railroad Street END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR