Taylor Swift's 'The Eras Tour' comes to Philadelphia for three shows this weekend

Taylor Swift's record-breaking "The Eras Tour" comes to Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.

While it's not exactly a homecoming for the megastar, her Berks County roots certainly give T-Swift an area connection. Her family still resides in Wyomissing, where her father, Scott K. Swift, is a financial advisor.

This is Swift's 32nd concert in her home state and it is taking place just across the street from one of the first major Pa. venues where she performed.

Swift sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Citizens Bank Park for the 2008 World Series. It came just days before the release of her smash sophomore album, "Fearless," which would launch the first concert tour of her career six months after the Phillies world championship.

In a 2009 interview with writer Erica Finamore at UDaily, a promotional publication produced by the University of Delaware's Office of Communications and Marketing, the elder Swift revealed how that World Series appearance came about.

“The reason she sang the anthem is because two University of Delaware alumni kept in touch over the years,” said the 71-year-old, who graduated from University of Delaware in 1974.

UD alum Michael DiMuzio, the now-retired longtime director of ballpark operations for the Philadelphia Phillies, would meet up with Swift once a year for a reunion and through that connection Taylor landed the anthem gig.

In the '09 interview, Scott Swift joked about how his daughter's success had sparked messages from plenty of old college buds: “You can either go on classmates.com or have a daughter who sells 10 million CDs.”

The head of Merrill Lynch's Wyomissing-based The Swift Group told UDaily that former college classmates would reach out when his daughter was performing in their hometown, even back then.

“I've heard from a lot of great alumni and I'm convinced they live in every city because whenever Taylor's rolling into wherever she is, we'll hear from them,” he said.

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It'll be tough scoring "Eras" tickets for the alum. The entire tour is effectively sold out, including Swift's Philadelphia concerts, at which Phoebe Bridgers opens all three shows and GAYLE is also on the Friday and Saturday bills.

Back in December, a full three months before "Eras" launched, the Wall Street Journal reported only 6% of tickets were still available for the tour, which will wrap up Aug. 9 in Inglewood, California's SoFi Stadium.

Even though she has performed only 16 of the tour's 52-date U.S. stadium trek, she has already broken some records. They include the female artist who has performed to the largest crowd in American history. It happened when she kicked off the tour for more than 69,000 fans in Glendale, Arizona, beating Madonna's record from 1987.

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