{"id":408786,"date":"2026-09-24T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408786\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:28:07","slug":"new-found-glory-announce-epcot-shows-in-honor-of-chad-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408786\/","title":{"rendered":"New Found Glory Announce EPCOT Shows in Honor of Chad Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNew Found Glory<\/a> has canceled their performance at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, which was set to begin next week, following the death<\/a> of bandmate Chad Gilbert<\/a>. In honor of the founding member and lead guitarist, who was a dedicated Disney fan, the band will play their first live shows at EPCOT in Walt Disney World Resort.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement shared to social media, New Found Glory thanked fans for their support following Gilbert\u2019s death. \u201cSeeing how deeply he touched so many lives means everything to us, and we know he would be so proud to see it,\u201d they wrote. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo give ourselves time to process and grieve, we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming appearance at Aftershock Festival. We rarely cancel shows but this felt needed,\u201d the band continued. \u201cAnyone who knew Chad knew that he was a massive Disney fan. Our shows at Epcot were dates he was so excited for and he was actively planning to be on stage with us there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Found Glory said that Gilbert had worked with his band members on the set lists and was \u201cpracticing as much as possible to be ready.\u201d They added, \u201cBecause of how much he wanted to play these shows, taking the stage at Epcot feels like the right way to honor him, and what he would want us to do. Our plan from the beginning with him was to announce our Epcot sets ahead of time, so we feel it\u2019s only appropriate to share them with you now as we prepare to play in his memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore ending their message, the group set their intention for the upcoming shows: \u201cEvery note we play and every word you sing at Epcot is for Chad. Thank you all for wrapping us in so much love, understanding, and support as we come together to honor his legacy.\u201d The band also shared the set list for the upcoming shows, which includes fan favorites \u201cMy Friends Over You,\u201d \u201cDressed to Kill,\u201d \u201cHit and Miss,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Florida pop-punk band and Gilbert\u2019s wife Lisa Cimorelli announced Gilbert\u2019s death on Sept. 20, six months after the guitarist\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0he was battling brain cancer. He was initially diagnosed with liver cancer in 2021.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSince founding the band alongside Jordan Pundik, Ian Grushka, and Stephen Klein in 1997 at just 17 years old, Gilbert became an invaluable part of New Found Glory and the pop-punk scene in the early aughts. Gilbert wrote most of the band\u2019s songs, including pop-punk staples \u201cMy Friends Over You\u201d and \u201cHead on Collision.\u201d Elsewhere, he offered guest vocals on a track from Fall Out Boy\u2019s\u00a0From Under the Cork Tree\u00a0and guitar riffs on the band\u2019s 2007 song, \u201cThe Take Over, the Breaks Over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThrough more than a dozen albums, endless tours around the world, and more accolades than we ever could have imagined, Chad challenged all of us to grow as musicians, performers, and human beings,\u201d his bandmates wrote in a statement announcing his death. \u201cHis influence will always be part of New Found Glory and his spirit will be felt on every stage we stand on, with every note we play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Found Glory has canceled their performance at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, which was set to begin next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[162346,162347,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-408786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-chad-gilbert","tag-new-found-glory","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}