{"id":384936,"date":"2026-04-17T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:20:10","slug":"kanye-wests-concert-in-poland-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384936\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West&#8217;s Concert in Poland Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West\u2019s live comeback has <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/04\/kanye-west-barred-from-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hit another snag<\/a>: his concert in Chorz\u00f3w, Poland, scheduled for June 19th, 2026, has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Silesian Stadium, where the show was set to take place, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/kanye-west-concert-poland-will-be-cancelled-newspaper-reports-2026-04-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> that it would \u201cnot take place due to formal and legal reasons.\u201d Ahead of the cancellation, Poland\u2019s culture minister, Marta Cienkowska, called West\u2019s planned visit \u201cunacceptable,\u201d adding, \u201cIn a country scarred by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend this is just entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows similar concert cancellations in the UK and France amid ongoing controversy over West\u2019s history of antisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West\u2019s live comeback has hit another snag: his concert in Chorz\u00f3w, Poland, scheduled for June 19th, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-384936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}