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Tuesday 16 of April 2024

Fleetwood Mac cancels Jazz Fest, other dates due to illness


AP Photo, Stevie Nicks, Mike Campbell, John McVie, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood,FILE - This March 29, 2019 file photo shows Inductee Stevie Nicks, center, posing with other members of Fleetwood Mac, from left, Mike Campbell, John McVie, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Illness is forcing Fleetwood Mac to cancel a number of appearances including their upcoming Jazz Fest performance where they were a last-minute replacement for the Rolling Stones. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival says on Twitter that Fleetwood Mac is postponing four upcoming North American tour dates and their May 2 Jazz Fest performance due to Stevie Nicks’ illness. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
AP Photo, Stevie Nicks, Mike Campbell, John McVie, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood,FILE - This March 29, 2019 file photo shows Inductee Stevie Nicks, center, posing with other members of Fleetwood Mac, from left, Mike Campbell, John McVie, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Illness is forcing Fleetwood Mac to cancel a number of appearances including their upcoming Jazz Fest performance where they were a last-minute replacement for the Rolling Stones. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival says on Twitter that Fleetwood Mac is postponing four upcoming North American tour dates and their May 2 Jazz Fest performance due to Stevie Nicks’ illness. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Illness is forcing Fleetwood Mac to cancel a number of appearances, including at the Jazz Fest, where the band had been scheduled as a last-minute replacement for the Rolling Stones.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival tweeted Monday that Fleetwood Mac is postponing four upcoming North American tour dates and can’t make its May 2 Jazz Fest performance because Stevie Nicks is ill.

Festival organizers announced last week that Fleetwood Mac would replace the Stones, which is postponing its No Filter Tour because Mick Jagger needed medical treatment. That tour was scheduled for April 20.

Jazz Fest organizers announced later Monday that Widespread Panic would replace Fleetwood Mac.