Willie Nelson will miss the opening run of exhibits on the 2024 Outlaw Music Festival Tour due to an unspecified illness.

The 91-yr-aged state icon was slated to kick off the tour on Friday evening time (June 21) at the Ameris Financial institution Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Ga., with each other with Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss and Celisse. Nonetheless, he would not be prepared to make the quite very first weekend of reveals on “doctor’s orders,” according to a place up on his social media.

Nelson’s workforce shared the subsequent facts on Friday afternoon:

We regret to inform you that Willie Nelson is not emotion nicely, and per doctor’s orders, has been recommended to rest for the upcoming 4 occasions. He is predicted to make a rapid restoration and be a component of the Outlaw Music Competition tour future week. In the meantime, Lukas Nelson and the Family members Band, alongside with a quantity of close friends, will carry out a certain set to incorporate Willie’s classics and other individuals tracks. Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and Celisse will continue to achieve as scheduled.

Nelson has ongoing recording new tunes and touring successfully into his later yrs, but he has been pressured to terminate displays right here and there in most recent a lot of years mainly because of to various illnesses.

According to Nelson’s official tour program, the Outlaw New music Competition is slated to operate by means of Sept. 20, when it wraps up with a show in Gilford, N.H. John Mellencamp, Billy Strings, Brittney Spencer and Southern Avenue are also on the invoice for choose reveals.

Willie Nelson created his most the most recent album, The Border, on March 31, 2024. The venture marked his 152nd album, in accordance to a press launch from Legacy Recordings.

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