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Stevie Nicks Pulls Out Of 2021 Festival Appearances: ‘My Primary Goal Is To Keep Healthy’
Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File – Stevie Nicks
performs at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on March 29, 2019. Nicks has spent the last 10 months homebound, mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. During that time, she recorded the new single “Show Them the Way” and edited her new concert film “Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold The Concert.” The song will be released Friday and the concert film, recorded over two nights during Nicks
Stevie Nicks has announced she will no longer be performing in 2021, saying “the rising COVID cases should be of concern to all of us.”
Nicks’ schedule had included major festival plays such as BottleRock Napa Valley in California Sept. 3-5, both weekends of Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas, in October, the now-postponed New Orleans Jazz Fest, and Jazz Aspen Festival in Colorado Sept. 5.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”und” dir=”ltr”><a href=”https://t.co/mPbeGYaEdL”>pic.twitter.com/mPbeGYaEdL</a></p>— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) <a href=”https://twitter.com/StevieNicks/status/1425200317310947335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Nicks’s last major tour as a solo artist was in 2017, when she grossed more than $20 million on 26 shows reported to Pollstar. In 2019 Fleetwood Mac did gangbusters with $112.2 million grossed on 50 shows, good for No. 10 worldwide for the calendar year. Nicks and Mac have also done major festival appearances, including Mac in 2019 doing major Euro events like Pinkpop and Rock Werchter, and in 2017 Nicks doing Bourbon & Beyond, British Summer Time at Hyde Park, and others.
Nicks’s last major tour as a solo artist was in 2017, when she grossed more than $20 million on 26 shows reported to Pollstar. In 2019 Fleetwood Mac did gangbusters with $112.2 million grossed on 50 shows, good for No. 10 worldwide for the calendar year. Nicks and Mac have also done major festival appearances, including Mac in 2019 doing major Euro events like Pinkpop and Rock Werchter, and in 2017 Nicks doing Bourbon & Beyond, British Summer Time at Hyde Park, and others.
The “new normal” continues to change for the concert industry, with most local governments now allowing full-capacity concerts, although individual events, tours or municipalities may require COVID vaccination or negative tests upon entry.
The situation has not so suddenly gone from nothing being allowed to (nearly) everything allowed, while leaving the industry to figure out the rest on the fly. Only recently have been the first public instances artists pulling out of newly confirmed plans, as the headlines and general mood change from day to day.