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Kacey Musgraves cancels three US tour dates without explanation
The affected shows include the ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ tour’s original opening night in Chicago next month
Kacey Musgraves has cancelled three dates on her upcoming ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ tour without offering an explanation.
- READ MORE: Kacey Musgraves – ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ review: a country heroine’s journey back to her roots
The country star had been due to begin the extensive international tour with two consecutive shows at Chicago’s United Center on August 20 and 21.
However, the opening concert on August 20 has now been cancelled, alongside a show at Boston’s TD Garden on August 29 and another at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on September 2.
All three were additional dates announced after the original tour schedule, and Musgraves is still set to perform in Chicago on August 21, Boston on August 28 and at New York’s Madison Square Garden on August 31 and September 1.
Ticket holders have received emails informing them of the cancellations, with information regarding refunds.
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At the time of writing, Musgraves has not commented publicly on any of the cancellations. The remaining dates are still listed on her official tour page, with tickets available for the alternative shows in Chicago, Boston and New York. Find any remaining tickets here.
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The tour is in support of her seventh studio album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’, which was released in May via Lost Highway Records and followed 2024’s ‘Deeper Well’.
The record includes collaborations with Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings and Gregory Alan Isakov, and in a three-and-a-half-star review, NME described it as one of Musgraves’ “most thematically cohesive records”.
“As its title evokes, ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ flows with a sense of isolation, its unembellished lyrics and sparser sound creating a real feeling of standing alone in the desert,” it read. “A resolute sense of solitude is the album’s central theme: not quite loneliness but a choiceful, empowered singledom.”
The album was also included in NME’s rundown of the best albums of 2026 so far.
Before its release, Musgraves debuted several songs from the record during a surprise appearance at Coachella 2026, marking her first performance at the festival since 2019.
She later went undercover in a giant armadillo costume to search for copies of the album in stores, and performed an innuendo-heavy rendition of ‘Dry Spell’ at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Kacey Musgraves has cancelled three dates on her upcoming ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ tour without offering an explanation.
- READ MORE: Kacey Musgraves – ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ review: a country heroine’s journey back to her roots
The country star had been due to begin the extensive international tour with two consecutive shows at Chicago’s United Center on August 20 and 21.
However, the opening concert on August 20 has now been cancelled, alongside a show at Boston’s TD Garden on August 29 and another at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on September 2.
All three were additional dates announced after the original tour schedule, and Musgraves is still set to perform in Chicago on August 21, Boston on August 28 and at New York’s Madison Square Garden on August 31 and September 1.
Ticket holders have received emails informing them of the cancellations, with information regarding refunds.
View this post on Instagram
At the time of writing, Musgraves has not commented publicly on any of the cancellations. The remaining dates are still listed on her official tour page, with tickets available for the alternative shows in Chicago, Boston and New York. Find any remaining tickets here.
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The tour is in support of her seventh studio album ‘Middle Of Nowhere’, which was released in May via Lost Highway Records and followed 2024’s ‘Deeper Well’.
The record includes collaborations with Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings and Gregory Alan Isakov, and in a three-and-a-half-star review, NME described it as one of Musgraves’ “most thematically cohesive records”.
“As its title evokes, ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ flows with a sense of isolation, its unembellished lyrics and sparser sound creating a real feeling of standing alone in the desert,” it read. “A resolute sense of solitude is the album’s central theme: not quite loneliness but a choiceful, empowered singledom.”
The album was also included in NME’s rundown of the best albums of 2026 so far.
Before its release, Musgraves debuted several songs from the record during a surprise appearance at Coachella 2026, marking her first performance at the festival since 2019.
She later went undercover in a giant armadillo costume to search for copies of the album in stores, and performed an innuendo-heavy rendition of ‘Dry Spell’ at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards.
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