Willie Nelson will take the stage on July 4th Thursday after skipping the first seven dates of his Outlaw Music festival due to an unspecified illness. The 91-year-old country icon is set to perform at the concert in Camden, NJ after missing Tuesday night's (July 2) concert in Mansfield, MA at the Xfinity Center.
“Willie Nelson can't wait to see everyone in Camden on the 4th of July,” read one Post on Instagram on Tuesday. “He will not appear in Mansfield today. Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and Celisse will appear as scheduled. Plus, Lucas Nelson and family, along with some special guests, will once again play his own set of Willie's classics and other songs.”
Thursday's show will mark the first time in 14 years that Nelson's annual Fourth of July picnic will be held outside of Texas, with Maren Morris and Mavis Staples joining the remaining acts for the festival date. According Rolling rockNelson's son, Promise of the Real band Lukas Nelson, has filled in for his dad on all of the Outlaw festival dates so far, playing with Willie's longtime harmonica player Mickey Raphael and the rest of his dad's band on classics like “Funny How Time Slips Away' and 'On the Road Again'.
The Outlaw festival kicked off June 21 in Alpharetta, Ga., with Nelson announcing that he was sitting out the opener “on doctor's orders,” saying at the time that he had been ordered to rest for four days. The outing is expected to conclude with a show on September 20 in Gilford, NH Nelson released his 75th studio album, The borderin May.
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