It’s a wrap earlier than it even began. The extremely anticipated Fugees reunion tour, which was already postponed, is now formally cancelled.
Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel have been imagined to be celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of their landmark album The Rating. Nevertheless, the group took to social media to let followers know the gig is off.
“We anticipate and perceive disappointment however our anniversary tour will be unable to occur,” wrote the group on their official social channels. “The continued Covid pandemic has made touring situations troublesome, and we need to ensure that we hold our followers and ourselves wholesome and secure.”
Introduced in September 2021, the group held a warm-up present at Pier 17 in New York Metropolis to nice fanfare, even when folks made certain to say it began late whereas pointing fingers to Lauryn Hill because the wrongdoer. Then the autumn dates obtained pushed to someday in 2022. However it nows appears that the truth that we’re nonetheless in an entire pandemic was sufficient motive to desk the world tour outright, not less than for now.
The group added, “An thought sparked to honor and have fun this twenty fifth anniversary of ‘The Rating’ however we see now it might not at present be our time for revisiting this previous work. We’re grateful for the particular night time we did get to share with a few of you in New York, with that uncommon reside second. If alternative, public security, and scheduling enable, we hope to have the ability to revisit this once more someday quickly. Thanks for all your love and assist all through the years.”
Now if y’all took your COVID vaccines and stopped uncooked dogging air, followers simply might need been in a position to watch L Boogie, Clef and Pras get busy on a stage close to you. However alas, right here we’re.
Apparently, Selection notes that tickets gross sales to the dates that have been beforehand made accessible have been “gentle.”
