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    Celine Dion cancels North American tour over health issue

    Celine Dion has canceled her North American tour amid health issues, she announced on social media. “I was genuinely hoping I’d be excellent to go by now, but I suppose I just have to be additional affected individual and comply with the program my doctors are prescribing,” Dion mentioned in a Twitter message posted Saturday, announcing the cancellation of the “Courage Globe Tour.” Dion originally done 52 displays of the tour by March 2020 right before the coronavirus spread throughout the state, and she meant to resume shows on March 9, 2022, in Denver, prior to this announcement. The tour also provided stops in San Francisco,…

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    Queen Elizabeth cancels pre-Christmas family lunch as Covid-19 cases rise in the UK

    Queen Elizabeth Image: Dan Kitwood – WPA Pool /Getty Pictures Queen Elizabeth has cancelled a pre-Christmas lunch with her family as a precaution when instances of COVID-19 soar in Britain, a Buckingham Palace supply said. “The selection is a precautionary one particular as it is felt to put also quite a few people’s Christmas preparations at threat if it went forward. “While there is regret that it is cancelled, there is a belief it is the appropriate factor to do for all.” England’s chief professional medical officer warned people on Wednesday not to mix with many others unless they have…

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    Stevie Nicks cancels all 2021 performances over coronavirus

    LOS ANGELES – Stevie Nicks has canceled five forthcoming performances at tunes festivals, citing coronavirus considerations, she claimed in a statement Tuesday. Nicks had been scheduled to headline 1 day every of BottleRock Napa Valley in California and the Jazz Aspen Festival in Colorado in September. In October, she was to have performed two times of the Austin Town Limits Music Pageant and a person day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The dates ended up all the shows she experienced planned for 2021. “These are difficult moments with complicated choices that have to be designed. I want…

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    National Ballet of Canada cancels The Nutcracker for the first time since 1955

    The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled the National Ballet of Canada to cancel its performances set for November and December, such as its yearly manufacturing of The Nutcracker. In a news launch, the corporation says not becoming in a position to conduct the fall time is “deeply disappointing.” But the basic safety of their audiences and artists is their “foremost precedence” all through the pandemic. The ballet says it even now intends to continue with its winter season time in March 2021 and its summer time in June 2021 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. Inventive…

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    COVID-19: Air Transat cancels Western Canadian flights to U.S. and other international destinations

    It’s undesirable information for travellers. But for these who have been involved about air vacation spreading COVID-19, this’ll be welcome information. A Canadian leisure airline has commenced up its flights yet again. On the other hand, it is cancelling all of its Western Canadian flights to the U.S. and other southern places this year. Montreal-based vacation enterprise Air Transat is resuming air functions following a 112-day shutdown all through the pandemic. On July 23, the enterprise commenced making its very first commercial flights yet again, which incorporate 3 domestic flights (Toronto-Vancouver, Toronto-Montreal, Montreal-Toronto) and 3 global flights (Montreal-Toulouse, Montreal-Paris, Toronto-London), in accordance…

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    5 Seconds of Summer Cancels Tour Following Michael Clifford Sexual Assault Allegations

    WENN The ‘She Seems to be So Perfect’ band announce hiatus as they get in touch with off their approaching tour following sexual assault allegations that their frontman vehemently denied. AceShowbiz – 5 Seconds of Summertime have postponed their North American and Australian tour and are “having time off” to “target on important matters away from the band” immediately after lead guitarist Michael Clifford was accused of sexual assault. Earlier this month, June 2020, a lady, with the Twitter deal with @sophiecth5, came ahead to declare he’d assaulted her all through the band’s 2013 tour supporting One particular Way. Clifford…

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    L.A.’s Greek Theatre cancels 2020 season due to coronavirus

    A Greek tragedy: The Greek Theatre in Griffith Park has referred to as off its complete 2020 year because of the coronavirus crisis, placing nonetheless one more blow to Los Angeles’ outdoor summer months live performance programming. On Tuesday, the venue announced that all of its forthcoming situations have been postponed, rescheduled for 2021 or canceled “in conformance with State, County and Town rules about COVID-19 and the improbability for mass gatherings, like concert events and massive group situations.” This marks the initially time the Greek has shuttered a whole year in its ninety-yr heritage. “Although we had hoped to…

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    Journey cancels 2020 tour because of coronavirus pandemic

    Journey receives set for Caesars residency Connected Press Monday, May possibly four, 2020 | five p.m. NEW YORK — Journey is the latest act to cancel their 2020 tour for the reason that of the coronavirus pandemic. The rock band was meant to kick off their new tour on May possibly fifteen but declared Monday that they would no more time strike the road. Band customers explained they made a decision to cancel the tour, as a substitute of postponing it, so that concertgoers would qualify for immediate refunds. “Having viewed what the earth has endured for the duration of the…

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    Stephen Leacock Associates cancels 2020 award gala dinner, will make announcements online

    Stephen Leacock Associates has cancelled this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Award for Humour gala dinner. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, which is worthy of $fifteen,000, is awarded to the very best reserve of humour each individual year. The medal is usually presented at the gala dinner held in Orillia, Ont., the first 7 days of June. Its cancellation is in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With 84 guides up for thing to consider, the ten longlisted guides and a few finalists will be discovered on April 19, 2020 and Could one, 2020, respectively. The winner will be…

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    SRJC cancels rest of theater season with newly redone Burbank Auditorium still unused

    Immediately after ready for additional than two many years to set on a present in its venerable Burbank Auditorium, newly renovated at a price of $thirty million, the Santa Rosa Junior University theater office will have to hold out a when for a longer period. The initially creation scheduled for the refurbished 400-seat space — “The Marriage ceremony Singer,” which was to open up April seventeen — has been cancelled because of to ongoing COVID-19 issues. It was to be the past present of the recent season. Till past thirty day period, the faculty productions ended up held at alternate…

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    Green Music Center cancels performances into early May

    Sonoma Point out University’s Green Audio Heart has canceled the relaxation of its present season, together with all performances through early May perhaps, citing the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We will miss bringing our audiences with each other for these performances,” explained Jacob Yarrow, the center’s executive director. “We have been equipped to provide aid to the artists to protect out-of-pocket expenditures and some work they have completed to get ready. We are grateful for the ticket donations that so lots of of our supporters have delivered.” Independently, in a statement unveiled by the centre Thursday, Yarrow explained the…

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    Stratford Festival cancels performances amid coronavirus spread

    Stratford Pageant has cancelled performances right up until Might two. On Friday, pageant officials claimed the cancellations were intended to aid slow the unfold of the coronavirus. Performances are cancelled from April eleven to Might two, as are all public events scheduled in the festival’s facilities in March and April. Cancelling events in the facilities is meant to defend the artists and crew, although cancelling performances is meant to defend audiences and the wider Stratford local community, in accordance to government director Anita Gaffney. The pageant will be speaking to ticket holders to set up re-bookings for demonstrates. Gaffney claimed the…