Jason Isbell, Stevie Nicks Cancel Shows Over Covid Concerns

U.S.|Jason Isbell and Stevie Nicks cancel shows implicit Covid concerns.

• Published Aug. 10, 2021Updated Aug. 11, 2021, 3:41 a.m. ET

The caller emergence successful coronavirus cases, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, has led to the cancellation of respective upcoming philharmonic performances.

The radical Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit’s amusement scheduled for Wednesday successful Houston has been canceled, according to a statement connected Tuesday from Mr. Isbell’s music label, Southeastern Records. The venue, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, “was not consenting to comply with the band’s updated Health and Safety standards,” it read. Tickets bought online volition beryllium refunded, according to the statement.

Also connected Tuesday, the vocalist Stevie Nicks said that though she is vaccinated, she is canceling the shows she was scheduled to execute this year, due to the fact that of the rising fig of cases.

“I privation everyone to beryllium harmless and steadfast and the rising Covid cases should beryllium of interest to each of us,” Ms. Nicks, 73, said successful a statement connected Twitter. “While I’m vaccinated, astatine my age, I americium inactive being highly cautious and for that crushed person decided to skip the 5 performances I had planned for 2021.”

Over the weekend, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival said that it was canceling this year’s event, citing the emergence successful cases.

In June, Bruce Springsteen became the archetypal idiosyncratic to execute connected Broadway arsenic immoderate New York City theaters reopened aft closing 16 months earlier due to the fact that of the pandemic. Before his archetypal performance, Mr. Springsteen told summons holders that they would beryllium admitted lone if they showed impervious of vaccination.