SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 An Earth, Wind and Fire concert was called off Thursday night in San Francisco after a member of the band suffered an unspecified medical emergency.<\/p>\n
The band was slated to perform with Lionel Richie around 7:30 p.m. at the Chase Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarth, Wind and Fire is unable to perform as scheduled tonight due to a medical emergency involving a member of their band,\u201d the center said in a statement 10 minutes ahead of the start time.<\/p>\n
Update: Yahoo News and TMZ on Friday identified the injured musician as Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris.<\/p>\n
The concert will be rescheduled, with a new date to be announced soon, the center said. Tickets to Thursday\u2019s show will be honored for the new date. Refunds will also be available at the point of purchase.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sincerely apologize for the unexpected change and appreciate everyone\u2019s understanding,\u201d the center said.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 An Earth, Wind and Fire concert was called off Thursday night in San Francisco after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,7,17876,74454,967,330,100,395,101,103,102,104,106,105,1860],"class_list":["post-427840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-concert","tag-earth-wind-and-fire","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}