Neil Young and his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse, have announced the cancellation of their upcoming tour dates. They revealed they had decided to take an “unplanned break” after several band members came down with an undisclosed illness. “We had to stop,” the statement reads.
“We are still not fully recovered, so sadly our great tour will have a big unplanned break. We will try to play some of the dates we miss as time passes when we are ready to rock again!” Earlier in the message, the musicians mentioned that the tour “has been a great experience” so far. “GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC.
WE HAVE HAD A BLAST!” they wrote. On April 20, Mr. Young and the Los Angeles-based rock band debuted their latest album, “Fu##in' Up,” which features a live performance of nine songs from their 1990 album, recorded at a Toronto club in the fall of 2023.
Mr. Young and Crazy Horse kicked off their “Love Earth” tour on April 24, with a two-night run at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre in San Diego, California. Subsequent shows included stops in Phoenix, Arizona; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Queens, New York, among other cities.
Following Mr. Young and Crazy Horse’s performance in Clarkston, Michigan, the musicians issued an update on Mr. Young’s website on May 24, sharing that they were postponing their upcoming shows in Chicago, Illinois, and Austin and Dallas, Texas.
“Regretfully, Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s shows at the Germania.
