“I am so sorry,” Luke Bryan says after Westmoreland farm concert called off
By Mike Darnay, Christopher DeRose
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LATROBE, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Country music star Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour concert Thursday night in Westmoreland County has been called off.
The show was canceled late Thursday morning because of the wet and muddy field conditions at 1846 Farms in Unity Township near Latrobe, where the concert was slated to take place.
Bryan apologizes for cancelation Several hours after the cancelation was announced, Luke Bryan took to his Instagram page, where he posted a story saying in part that he was “so sorry” and that the decision was made in the name of safety.
“Please hang on to your tickets and parking passes,” Bryan said. “We are working on the next steps and will update y’all as soon as a decision is made.”
The website for the show says that people with tickets will receive information by email.
There is no word on a rescheduled date, but KDKA can confirm Bryan’s people reached out to the Westmoreland County Fairgrounds about a potential new show date in the not-too-distant future.
Muddy field conditions blamed Aleisha Stas, the general manager of 1846 Farms, said that she and her team are devastated that the show was called off.
“Luke and his team made the call. It was not on us,” Stas said. “But the conditions of the mud, the ground is just too soft to have millions of dollars of equipment and it is just not safe either for people to be parking. There was a risk of people sliding in their vehicles and people falling so, it was overall the better choice for everyone’s safety.”
One by one on Thursday, the tour buses and trucks had to be pushed, moved and towed out of the soggy, sunken earth, made even worse by a heavy Thursday morning rain that lasted for well over two hours.
“This is the life of the American farmer,” Stas said. “This is what we deal with every single day. No matter how tirelessly you work, how hard you work, you can’t help Mother Nature. So that’s all I can say: God bless American farmers.”
Approximately 15,000 to 20,000 people were expected to attend the show at the farm.
One Luke Bryan fan, Kristin Carter, came all the way from Florida for the show. She said she had to come to the farm Thursday afternoon to see for herself just how bad the conditions were.
“As much money as I spent to get here, I could have bought a Louis Vuitton purse,” she joked. “But here I am … I get it for safety why they had to do it, of course. But it is disappointing.”
In 2024, Luke Bryan played a similar farm show to the one that was planned for the Latrobe area when he played near Smithton at the Cunningham Family Farm.
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