Pearl Jam postpones North American tour due to coronavirus concerns

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Pearl Jam has postponed its North American tour that was scheduled to start March 18.

The band released a statement Monday evening postponing this portion of their tour. New dates will be determined and current tickets will be honored for those dates, the band said.

The tour was originally slated to start in Toronto on March 18 make several stops across Canada before crossing into the United States on March 26. The North American leg would have wrapped up in Oakland, California, on April 19.

Band members said they were personally being affected by the COVID-19 health fears. The band is from Washington state, where two dozen people have died, most of them at a Seattle-area nursing home.

The dates for the European portion of the tour, which is set for June 23 in Germany, remain unchanged at this time.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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