{"id":612004,"date":"2026-09-26T03:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612004\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:12:16","slug":"macklemore-announces-concerts-benefitting-palestinian-aid-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612004\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklemore announces concerts benefitting Palestinian aid organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being removed from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour<\/a>, Grammy Award winner Macklemore will soon return to the live stage. The rapper has announced Free Palestine, a series of performances with all proceeds to benefit Palestinian aid organisations.<\/p>\n

The run will begin with three dates next month in Europe. It kicks off at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 26, followed by Paris’ Accor Arena on October 29 and London’s OVO Arena Wembley on October 30.<\/p>\n

Additional artist announcements, as well as US dates, are forthcoming.<\/p>\n

An artist presale begins at 10am local time Monday at Macklemore.com.<\/p>\n

\"Macklemore's<\/p>\n

Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour announcement. (Source: Instagram) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

According to a press release from Live Nation, the shows will benefit several Palestinian aid organisations, including Anera, Glia, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Taawon, HEAL Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, Middle East Children\u2019s Alliance, Jewish Voice for Peace, Medical Aid for Palestinians. Institute for Middle East Understanding, Palestine Children\u2019s Relief Fund and a UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA USA.<\/p>\n

“If these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it\u2019s that something has shifted over the last three years. There has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now,” Macklemore wrote on Instagram in the caption of his Free Palestine announcement. “When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.”<\/p>\n

What to know about Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian comments \u2014 and Ed Sheeran<\/p>\n

\"Recording<\/p>\n

Recording artist Macklemore appears on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Summer Concert Series in Central Park in New York on July 22, 2022, left, and Ed Sheeran appears at the premiere of the film “F1 The Movie” in London on June 23, 2025. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Last week, Macklemore made headlines when it was revealed that he was dropped as an opener for Ed Sheeran\u2019s tour of North and South America because of the rapper\u2019s onstage pro-Palestinian comments. Since then, all of Sheeran\u2019s other supporting acts dropped out<\/a>, including a group that plays with Sheeran during part of the show.<\/p>\n

At the time, Sheeran said the decision to cut Macklemore<\/a> from the Loop Tour was the promoter\u2019s, not his own.<\/p>\n

Macklemore said his removal was the result of an effort led by Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots. His Kraft Group also owns Gillette Stadium, where the NFL team plays and where Sheeran is scheduled to perform later this month.<\/p>\n

Macklemore also announced he would donate US$1 million<\/a> (NZ$1.77 million) from his net earnings from the tour to six organisations helping Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being removed from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, Grammy Award winner Macklemore will soon return to the live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,157,111,139,64,69],"class_list":["post-612004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612004","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=612004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}