Delta variant turns tour curveball
Due to a surge of the COVID delta variant, Garth Brooks will not be moving forward with the Seattle on sale on Friday (Aug 6th) as planned. In a press announcement sent on Tuesday (Aug 3rd), Brooks and his team are unsure if the Seattle show will be able to be played on its scheduled date of Saturday, September 4th.
Following the sold out Kansas City performance this weekend (Aug 7th) and Lincoln next weekend on August 14th, the Garth Brooks Stadium Tour will have a three week window without a concert scheduled in which the tour will assess where the remainder of the dates this year stand due to the resurgence of the COVID virus.
“Although Seattle is the first city back after that three weeks, we still don’t know what is going to happen to concerts at this point…therefore, until we are sure we can play the date, we will not be going forward with the Seattle on sale,” the statement reads.
“It breaks my heart to see city after city go on sale and then have to ask those sweet people and the venues to reschedule,” Brooks shares. “We have a three week window coming up where we, as a group, will assess the remainder of the stadium tour this year. It’s humbling to see people put this much faith in you as an artist, and it kills me to think I am letting them down.”
The Seattle date will be Brooks first ever concert at home of the Seahawks, and his only Pacific Northwest and Washington State appearance on the three year trek.
Other stops that could be affected include the multi-rescheduled Cincinnati on September 18th and Charlotte on September 25th, his first-ever concert at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on October 2nd and his first-ever concert at Gillette Stadium in Boston on October 9th.
His first ever stop at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium last weekend was postponed due to severe weather. The new date has not been announced at this time.
At this time, no other artists with planned performances through the fall have postponed or canceled due to the nationwide rise of COVID cases. We will have more details as it becomes available.
