Alan Jackson canceled Saturday night time’s (Aug. 27) live performance in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, after testing constructive for COVID-19.
“I’m so sorry I can’t be there tonight,” Jackson stated, in line with an announcement revealed by the venue, the T-Cell Middle. “I hate to disappoint my followers.”
A consultant for Jackson confirmed to Billboard that the nation star has COVID-19 and that the present was known as off.
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The T-Cell Middle says organizers intend to reschedule the live performance date, and that those that bought tickets for the unique date could have them honored on the rescheduled date.
The present was a part of his Final Name: One Extra for the Street” Tour, which launched in June and runs by means of early October. On the time of publication, the Aug. 27 date is the one one postponed. Jackson’s subsequent scheduled live performance is on Sept. 9 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The tour marks Jackson’s first time on the street since revealing a well being prognosis final fall, when he instructed followers about his battle with Charcot-Marie-Tooth illness, a degenerative nerve situation that impacts the peripheral nervous system and causes steadiness issues. $1 from each tour ticket bought was to be donated to the CMT Analysis Basis, which funds analysis for Charcot-Marie-Tooth drug growth.
“I’ve this neuropathy and neurological illness,” Jackson, who launched the 21-track album The place Have You Gone? in 2021, stated final yr. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy … There’s no treatment for it, however it’s been affecting me for years, and it’s getting an increasing number of apparent. I do know I’m stumbling round on stage. And now I’m having slightly bother balancing, even in entrance of the microphone, and so I simply really feel very uncomfortable. It’s not going to kill me. It’s not lethal.”
