WICKLOW BAND FLORENCE Road have thanked Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder for helping them out after their gear was stolen from their van in Los Angeles, California.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Florence Road announced on Saturday that they wouldn\u2019t be able to carry out their scheduled performances at California\u2019s Ohana Festival due to their equipment being stolen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re absolutely devastated to say that we won\u2019t be able to play our set at Ohana Festival today,\u201d the band said in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast night, all of our gear was stolen from our van in Los Angeles. Our guitars, pedal boards and everything we need to play our shows,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n
The Bray band, which is made up of Lily Aron, Emma Brandon, Ailbhe Barry and Hannah Kelly, then shared a follow-up post to say they were able to perform the set after all.<\/p>\n
The band said that \u201cthe second Eddie heard\u201d their guitars had been stolen he insisted on loaning his own.<\/p>\n
Florence Road described Vedder as \u201ca true gentleman\u201d, and shared a picture of the musician with the band.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an insane 48 hours! We couldn\u2019t be more grateful to Eddie Vedder and the whole team at Ohana Festival,\u201d they said, also thanking the festival and Fender guitars.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the best team of people around us and this show would not have happened without them! It does take a village!\u201d<\/p>\n
Vedder founded the annual Ohana Festival in 2016. He headlined the festival on Sunday and also featured as a guest in several sets across the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WICKLOW BAND FLORENCE Road have thanked Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder for helping them out after their gear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88039,93,250166,61,271590,60,116,271591,666,271592,7469],"class_list":["post-639421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eddie-vedder","tag-entertainment","tag-florence-road","tag-ie","tag-in-a-jam","tag-ireland","tag-los-angeles","tag-ohana-festival","tag-pearl-jam","tag-vedder-late-than-never","tag-wicklow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}