Shakira’s live performance in Boston was cancelled on the final minute because of issues across the venue.
The ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ hitmaker was set to carry out on the metropolis’s Fenway Park final night time (Could 29) as a part of her ongoing tour, ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’.
Within the run-up to the gig, it appeared that all the things was going easily. The singer shared quite a few updates on social media yesterday sharing her pleasure for the present, and even teased that there could be visitor appearances from Wyclef Jean and Will.i.am.
Nonetheless, simply hours earlier than the doorways had been set to open, an announcement was shared by Dwell Nation saying that it might be now not going forward.
The problems had been mentioned to be round “unexpected circumstances”, and different performances from Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn – scheduled for tonight (Could 30) – had been additionally scrapped.
“Attributable to unexpected circumstances, the Shakira and Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn performances initially scheduled for Could twenty ninth and Could thirtieth respectively at Fenway Park have been cancelled,” the replace learn. “Refunds will likely be accessible at your level of buy. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
The identical assertion was shared by Fenway Live shows, and no official reasoning for the cancellation was shared. Not one of the artists concerned have publicly shared a remark concerning the axed exhibits at time of writing.
Whereas neither Dwell Nation nor Fenway defined what precipitated the exhibits to be cancelled, a report from native channel 7News means that the choice could have been reached following an inspection of the venue.
It claims that an inspectional providers division noticed a security concern on the website when making ready to log out on the stage construction, though this has not been formally confirmed.
With the present final night time, Shakira was meant to be the primary artist to carry out on the venue to kick off the 2025 Fenway Live performance Collection. She is ready to proceed her tour dates tomorrow (Saturday Could 31) in Washington D.C., and it isn’t but clear whether or not she is going to reschedule one other present for Boston.
Whereas Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn have had their exhibits cancelled for Fenway too, the sequence is supposed to proceed on June 23 and 24 with exhibits from Hozier. Different performances for the sequence embrace stops from My Chemical Romance, Jonas Brothers, The Lumineers, Thomas Rhett and extra.
This isn’t the one present Shakira has been pressured to cancel just lately. Again in February, the ‘At any time when, Wherever’ star needed to postpone a present in Medellín, Colombia because of stage security issues. Simply days earlier than then, she needed to reschedule a present in Lima, Peru on after being hospitalised.
