by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – Information that Buju Banton has postponed 5 reveals on his ‘The Overcomer Tour’ continues a pattern of high-profile artists calling off gigs this 12 months for numerous causes. The Jamaican Grammy winner’s administration introduced final week that dates scheduled for September in Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, California and Chicago shall be rescheduled.
In a press release, launched on August 11, they insisted the tour has not been canceled. The opening present, on August 23 at Amerant Bank Arena in Fort Lauderdale, remains to be on.
The Overcomer Tour was introduced on July 15, shortly after Banton carried out at two sold-out reveals on July 13 and 14 on the UBS Area in Elmont, New York. All 13 reveals have been scheduled for arenas, venues with over 15,000 capability.
No purpose has been given for the postponements, but it surely comes simply days after Lauryn Hill canceled her tour as a consequence of poor ticket gross sales. Jennifer Lopez, The Black Keys, Rod Stewart and Justin Timberlake have both canceled or postponed reveals within the US and Europe this 12 months.
In June, Dave Clark, editor of Ticket Information which tracks the stay leisure scene, stated economics is an enormous purpose for a lot of of those acts pulling the plug on their excursions and reveals.
“The times the place there was sufficient demand to promote out arenas at prime greenback simply isn’t there on this stay occasions economic system — outdoors of individuals like Taylor Swift who can promote no matter they need wherever they need,” he informed NBC Information. stated. “Persons are seeing among the costs they’re asking and simply saying, ‘Exhausting go’.
Buju Banton’s different dates in August, in Tampa, Washington DC and Boston, will go forward. So too gigs in Atlanta and Hartford, Connecticut in September.
The success of the UBS Arena shows — which attracted over 35,000 followers — influenced his administration to assemble an enviornment tour of the US, a rarity for dancehall-reggae artists.
They have been Buju Banton’s first reveals within the US since his visa for that nation was reinstated in Might. He served an eight-year jail sentence within the US on drug-related costs, which ended together with his December, 2018 deportation to Jamaica.
