{"id":860383,"date":"2026-09-25T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860383\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:58:14","slug":"ed-sheerans-concerts-at-gillette-stadium-canceled-citing-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860383\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Gillette Stadium canceled citing nor’easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Gillette Stadium canceled citing nor’easter<\/p>\n

\"PhilFOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014<\/p>\n

Ed Sheeran’s Friday and Saturday night concerts at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, are being canceled. The stadium cited the forecasted nor’easter<\/a> as the reason for the decision. <\/p>\n

“The decision was made with the safety of fans and everyone involved in the shows as the top priority,” the stadium wrote on social media. <\/p>\n

Fans are being offered refunds through their point of purchase and Gillette Stadium said Ticketmaster purchases will be automatically refunded. <\/p>\n

Sky5 flew over the stadium on Friday morning and saw crews working to disassemble Sheeran’s stage. At least nine tractor-trailers were parked inside the stadium for the equipment. <\/p>\n

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The cancelation is the latest stumble for Sheeran’s Loop Tour. <\/p>\n

Previously, the start time for the shows was delayed after all of his opening acts pulled out of the tour. <\/p>\n

Robert Kraft, CEO of the Kraft Group, which owns Gillette Stadium, had objected to rapper Macklemore’s<\/a> participation in the tour. Kraft’s position came in response to Macklemore speaking out about Israel and Gaza. <\/p>\n

The rapper was dropped from the tour, and other opening acts subsequently quit in solidarity with Macklemore. <\/p>\n

Last week, Sheeran addressed the issues of the Gaza conflict and free speech during a show in Philadelphia, where pro-Palestine protesters had gathered outside the venue. He called the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel “horrific” and described what is happening in Gaza as “catastrophic and unjustifiable.”<\/p>\n

Sheeran also shared his concerns about restrictions on performers’ speech at venues. <\/p>\n

“I am deeply worried about the idea that venues should pre-approve content of performers,” Sheeran said. “This happens in so many places where I perform around the world, but it should never happen in the free world.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Gillette Stadium canceled citing nor’easter FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2014 Ed Sheeran’s Friday and Saturday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7069,24229,88,29603,223570,20390,35360,5618,16117,803,363149,23257,363148,357624,2001,216,124924,72000,19857,24143,23640,10131],"class_list":["post-860383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-concert","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-fan","tag-foxboro","tag-foxborough","tag-free-speech","tag-gaza","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-israel","tag-kraft-group","tag-last-week","tag-loop-tour","tag-macklemore","tag-massachusetts","tag-music","tag-noreaster","tag-performer","tag-purchase","tag-robert-kraft","tag-show","tag-venue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}