Whereas Toby Keith seems like every drunk Oklahoma dad, Garth Brooks seems like every great Oklahoma dad, if you can overlook the fact that he divorced his first wife, moved out of state to Nashville and, for a short-time, assumed the alter-ego of an Australian rock star for a movie that never happened and an album that did.
But let’s go ahead and add “keeping America safe” to that list, because the Tulsa-born and Yukon-bred country star has just canceled the remaining six dates of his high-grossing stadium tour in an effort to curb this latest nationwide outbreak, with other dates to be justified on a case-by-case basis. From KOCO:
Brooks had said weeks ago that he would be reassessing the tour in light of the surge in cases. Tickets will be refunded for shows scheduled in Cincinnati; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baltimore; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Nashville, Tennessee. He had also planned to play in Seattle but declined to put tickets on sale.
“In July, I sincerely thought the pandemic was falling behind us," Brooks said in a statement on Wednesday. “Now, watching this new wave, I realize we are still in the fight and I must do my part.”