County music star Morgan Wallen has stunned fans after flipping a piano on stage during a dramatic outburst at a concert in Denver.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old was performing his hit song Sand in My Boots at Empower Field at Mile High on Friday night when technical issues appeared to derail the performance.<\/p>\n
Video shared across social media show Mr Wallen becoming visibly frustrated while seated at the piano before abandoning the instrument and finishing the song a cappella.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Moments later the singer walked back toward the piano, shoved it across the stage and flipped it onto its side as the crowd gasped and cheered in surprise.<\/p>\n Despite the angry blow-up, the country star carried on performing more of his hits to see out the concert.<\/p>\n Footage of the incident has gone viral online, with fans divided over the singer\u2019s on-stage behaviour.<\/p>\n \u201cThis gave me the biggest ick,\u201d one unhappy commenter wrote.<\/p>\n Another added: \u201cWell that was mature.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy does this bother y\u2019all so much,\u201d one person said at the star\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n Mr Wallen has not publicly addressed the situation.<\/p>\n The very public tantrum came during the two-time Grammy nominee\u2019s tour which kicked off in Minneapolis in April and features a rotation of support acts including Brooks & Dunn, HARDY, Thomas Rhett and Ella Langley.<\/p>\n The USA tour will see the star trek across to multiple States to play at major venues. It is set to wrap up in August in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n The onstage meltdown isn\u2019t the first attention-grabbing statement the musician has made during one of his performances.<\/p>\n During his I\u2019m the Problem tour in June last year, Mr Wallen set the stage on fire during a concert in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n Mr Wallen has also faced controversy away from the stage.<\/p>\n In April 2025 the Whiskey Glasses hitmaker was arrested after hurling a chair off the roof of a bar in Nashville.<\/p>\n Later in December he was sentenced to seven days at a DUI education centre as well as two years\u2019 probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County music star Morgan Wallen has stunned fans after flipping a piano on stage during a dramatic outburst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2331,43,136,44,2332,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-708125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-culture","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}