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highplainsdem

(57,406 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:40 AM Thursday

Steve Miller Band cancel all upcoming shows, citing "extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and

massive forest fires"


From Classic Rock magazine:

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/steve-miller-band-cancel-all-upcoming-shows-citing-extreme-heat-unpredictable-flooding-tornadoes-hurricanes-and-massive-forest-fires

The Steve Miller Band have cancelled all their upcoming shows. The band, who were scheduled to kick off their 2025 summer tour at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Outdoor Stage in Mount Pleasant, MI, on August 13, broke the news via a statement posted on social media.

"You make music with your instincts," reads the statement. "You live your life by your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Band has cancelled all of our upcoming tour dates.

"The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable. So… you can blame it on the weather. The tour is cancelled.

"Don’t know where, don’t know when... we hope to see you all again. Wishing you all peace, love and happiness. Please take care of each other."

-snip-



The article also mentions tour insurance premiums having become much more expensive because of weather cancellations.

But Variety's article on this

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-miller-band-cancels-all-tour-dates-due-to-weather-disasters-1236463342/

added that ticket sales hadn't been good:

The band has canceled all 31 scheduled dates of its American tour, which was slated to begin Aug. 15 in Bethel, NY and traverse the entire country before concluding in Anaheim, Calif. on Nov. 8. Miller has toured regularly in recent years, and a look at Ticketmaster (which still had seating maps posted at the time of this article’s publication) showed soft ticket sales for many of the dates, although this could be at least partially due to the fact that the launch date was nearly a month away.



Of course the possibility of bad weather is likely to be affecting ticket sales, too, for outdoor concerts. Especially for older music fans.
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Bravissimo !!! Bluetus Thursday #1

Bluetus

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1. Bravissimo !!!
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 10:57 AM
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More of this, please. We need to shake the apathetic public from their stupor. They need to understand that government policies have huge impacts on all of us.

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