{"id":255650,"date":"2025-11-02T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255650\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:46:10","slug":"benson-boone-cancels-birmingham-utilita-arena-gig-at-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255650\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson Boone cancels Birmingham Utilita Arena gig at last minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte BentonWest Midlands<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761655748_145_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02d33470-a381-11f0-a56f-0b1b78ebdf89.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock Benson Boone performs on stage. He is holding a microphone in both hands.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Benson Boone was due to perform at the city&#8217;s Utilita Arena on Saturday evening<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Benson Boone has cancelled his Birmingham concert about an hour before it was scheduled to start due to illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement posted on his Instagram account, the US singer-songwriter apologised to fans and said he had &#8220;tried everything&#8221; to revive his voice, but he would not be able to perform the show he wanted to due to the &#8220;condition of my throat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Boone was set to perform at the city&#8217;s Utilita Arena on Saturday evening as part of his American Heart Tour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The singer added he was working with his team to find a date to reschedule as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I promise you I will do everything in my power to make it up to you&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement the Utilita Arena also confirmed the cancellation of the gig and said it was &#8220;working through all possible options to reschedule&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We understand how disappointing this is and sincerely apologise for the extremely short notice and inconvenience caused,&#8221; the statement added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Boone is yet to confirm if he will perform his next three dates in London starting on Monday, that were due to bring the UK leg of his tour to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte BentonWest Midlands EPA-EFE\/REX\/Shutterstock Benson Boone was due to perform at the city&#8217;s Utilita Arena on Saturday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-255650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}