Stevie Nicks Cancels 2021 Concerts: ‘These Are Challenging Times’

Stevie Nicks has canceled all of her 2021 tour plans. The Fleetwood Mac star had 5 solo exhibits deliberate for the yr, however tweeted that she desires to play it secure “so I can proceed singing for the following decade or longer. I am devastated and I do know the followers are disillusioned, however we’ll look in direction of a brighter 2022.”

Listed below are extra 2021 excursions which have been postponed or canceled because of the pandemic.

New Orleans Jazz Fest and Heritage Competition
The 2021 New Orleans Jazz Fest and Heritage Competition has been canceled because of the continued COVID-19 pandemic.

In a press launch saying the choice, pageant organizer cited “present exponential development of latest COVID circumstances in New Orleans and the area and the continued public well being emergency,” as their cause for pulling the plug.

The Rolling Stones, Lifeless and Firm, Stevie Nicks, Foo Fighters, the Black Crowes, the Seaside Boys and Elvis Costello had been among the many greater than 70 artists scheduled to carry out on the occasion.

The New Orleans Jazz Fest has historically been held within the spring, however was pushed again to the autumn in 2021 out of an abundance of warning surrounding COVID-19. The fest didn’t happen in 2020 because of the pandemic, marking the primary time it had been canceled within the occasion’s 50 yr historical past. Jazz Fest 2022 is at the moment slated to happen April 29-Might 8.

“Ticketholders for each Competition weekends (together with people who rolled over their tickets from 2020) will obtain an electronic mail this week with particulars in regards to the ticket refund and rollover course of,” the press launch said. “Within the meantime, we urge everybody to observe the rules and protocols put forth by public well being officers, in order that we will all quickly expertise collectively the enjoyment that’s Jazz Fest.”

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled 4 August tour dates after guitarist Rickey Medlocke examined optimistic for COVID-19. “Rickey is dwelling resting and responding effectively to remedy,” the band famous in a message posted to followers. The group is scheduled to renew its tour on Aug. 19 in Canandaigua, N.Y.

Tesla
On Aug. 8, Tesla introduced that they had been suspending “their subsequent few engagements as a consequence of members of the touring celebration contracting COVID.” Although particular concert events weren’t initially talked about, scheduled performances in Sturgis, S.D. (Aug ninth) and Harris, Mich. (August 11 and 12) now not appeared on their tour itinerary.

REO Speedwagon
A optimistic check inside the REO Speedwagon camp led to the band’s cancellation of concert events on Aug. 4 in Sandpoint, Idaho and Aug. 5 in Sturgis, S.D. “Thankfully, everybody was vaccinated, and all are feeling fantastic regardless of the optimistic assessments,” the group famous through assertion. “As soon as everybody affected observes the advisable quarantine and assessments unfavorable, we’ll be again on the street once more!” In a separate message, frontman Kevin Cronin revealed that he was affected by “lowered, but uncomfortable signs of Covid-19.”

Bachman Cummings
On Aug. 5, former Guess Who bandmates Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings introduced they had been canceling the U.S. leg of their Collectively Once more tour. The duo expressed their “love and appreciation to the entire followers that had been planning to come back to those exhibits” whereas including that they “can’t wait to see you all once more when issues are extra predictable by way of journey out and in of Canada.”

James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt
James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt had been scheduled to tour Canada collectively, however needed to cancel the trek as a consequence of “COVID-19 challenges and restrictions.” ““That is the second time Bonnie and I’ve needed to postpone our Canadian tour, the primary time in April ‘20 in the beginning of Covid and now once more for the rescheduling of that tour this September,” Taylor famous in his message to followers. The soft-rocker beforehand postponed his U.S. tour alongside Jackson Browne, initially deliberate for 2020, then rescheduled for spring of 2021, earlier than lastly kicking off on July 29.

Hella Mega Tour
The Hella Mega Tour – that includes Inexperienced Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy – misplaced a 3rd of its headliners when the latter act needed to pull out of performances in New York, Boston and Washington D.C. as a consequence of a optimistic COVID check inside their touring workforce. “It’s vital to notice that everybody on all the tour, each band and crew, are absolutely vaccinated,” Fall Out Boy defined. “Every band and their crew have operated in a bubble independently to safeguard everybody as a lot as potential at every present and in between exhibits.”

Limp Bizkit
In a press release launched Aug. 7, Limp Bizkit introduced that they had been canceling the remaineder of their summer season tour dates “out of an abundance of warning and concern for the security of the band, crew and most of all of the followers.” The group later denier rumors that guitarist Wes Borland had gotten COVID.

Counting Crows
“Sadly there was a confirmed COVID case inside the Counting Crows touring celebration,” famous a message from the group posted Aug. 8. The band instantly postponed two exhibits in consequence.

Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters had been compelled to postpone a Los Angeles efficiency initially deliberate for July 17 after a “confirmed COVID-19 case inside the Foo Fighters group.” The gig has since been rescheduled for Aug. 26.