Willie Nelson will likely be on stage on the fourth of July on Thursday after skipping the primary seven dates of his Outlaw Music Competition on account of an unspecified sickness. The 91-year-old nation icon is slated to carry out on the gig in Camden, N.J. after lacking Tuesday evening’s (July 2) live performance in Mansfield, MA on the Xfinity Middle.
“Willie Nelson is trying ahead to seeing everybody in Camden on July 4,” learn an Instagram put up on Tuesday. “He is not going to be performing in Mansfield at present. Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Celisse will carry out as scheduled. As well as, Lukas Nelson and Household, together with some particular friends, will as soon as once more play his personal set that may embrace Willie’s classics and different songs.”
Thursday’s present will mark the primary time in 14 years that Nelson’s annual Fourth of July Picnic will likely be held outdoors of Texas, with Maren Morris and Mavis Staples becoming a member of the remainder of the acts for the pageant date. In response to Rolling Stone, Nelson’s son, Promise of the Actual band chief Lukas Nelson, crammed in for his dad on all of the Outlaw pageant dates to date, performing with Willie’s longtime harmonica participant Mickey Raphael and the remainder of his father’s band on such classics as “Humorous How Time Slips Away” and “On the Street Once more.”
The Outlaw pageant kicked off on June 21 in Alpharetta, Ga., with Nelson asserting that he was sitting out the opener “per physician’s orders,” saying on the time that he’d been ordered to relaxation for 4 days. The outing is slated to wrap up with a Sept. 20 present in Gilford, N.H. Nelson launched his seventy fifth studio album, The Border, in Could.
