(L-R) Emily Strayer, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire of The Chicks Dave Hogan/Hogan Media/Shutterstock
The Chicks have continued to make modifications to their tour schedule amid an undisclosed sickness.
The band gave followers a “tour replace” by way of Instagram on Tuesday, August 1, sharing a written assertion. “As a result of an ongoing sickness, we remorse that we should reschedule our present at Merriweather Put up Pavilion and cancel our present at Bethel Woods Middle for the Arts.”
The Chicks — a.okay.a. Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer — had been set to carry out in Bethel, New York, on Thursday, August 3, at some point after their present in Columbia, Maryland. They are going to now seem on the Merriweather Put up Pavilion on September 20.
In accordance with the social media add, tickets for the unique Maryland live performance will nonetheless be honored on the rescheduled date. Bethel concertgoers, in the meantime, will probably be routinely refunded.
The assertion didn’t embody specifics concerning the illness or who within the band was instantly impacted. Final week, the nation group postponed exhibits in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, and Greensboro, North Carolina.
“We’ve got made the tough choice to additionally reschedule our exhibits in Knoxville and Greensboro attributable to sickness. We’re so sorry for the inconvenience, however our precedence is to placed on a present you all deserve,” learn a Friday, July 28, Twitter assertion, which included new dates for every of the three gigs.
The Chicks World Tour kicked off in Norway in June. U.S. dates are scheduled by way of September earlier than the trio heads to Australia and New Zealand this fall.
Previously referred to as the Dixie Chicks, the band introduced in June 2020 that they modified their identify amid the rise in Black Lives Matter protests all through the nation. “We wish to meet this second,” learn an announcement shared by way of The Chicks’ web site.
Accompanying the rollout of their new identify was the music video for his or her music “March March,” which seems on the 2020 album Gaslighter. The visible reminded followers to “Use your VOICE” and “Use your VOTE” because the combat for racial justice continued.
Whereas The Chicks have briefly pressed pause on their present tour, fellow nation artists are taking the stage throughout the nation — and have been topic to stunning security hazards. In June, Kelsea Ballerini was performing in Idaho when a fan threw an object on stage and unintentionally hit Ballerini within the face. Ballerini’s band members stopped to verify on her earlier than she momentarily left the stage.
“Hello. I’m high quality,” she knowledgeable her Instagram followers after the present. “Somebody threw a bracelet, it hit me within the eye, and it extra so simply scared me than harm me. All of us have triggers and layers of fears means deeper than what’s proven, and that’s why I walked offstage to settle down and ensure myself, band and crew, and the gang all felt secure to proceed.”
Ballerini asserted that she hoped her live shows might “really feel like a secure place for” each these on stage and within the viewers.
The phenomenon of thrown objects has repeated at varied exhibits all through the summer time. As he prepares to hit the street on his Standing Room Solely Tour subsequent yr, Tim McGraw is anticipating the surprising.
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“Hopefully I’m nonetheless spry, and hope I can dodge and duck and leap,” he instructed Leisure Tonight when requested whether or not he deliberate to take additional security precautions. “I imply, it’s completely loopy, and you then wreck the present for everyone else.”
