Darius Rucker Clears Up The Future Of His Tour After Losing His Voice At Recent Concert
Is Darius Rucker insisting that the show must go on… even after losing his voice? Last weekend, the “Alright” singer was performing in Atlantic City, New Jersey on a stop along his Darius Rucker Live Tour when his voice gave out only a few songs into the concert. Rucker had only gotten through three songs in his set when he realized he wouldn’t be able to go on with the performance. You’ll see in the video that Darius was a […] The post Darius Rucker Clears Up The Future Of His Tour After Losing His Voice At Recent Concert first appeared on Whiskey Riff.


Is Darius Rucker insisting that the show must go on… even after losing his voice?
Last weekend, the “Alright” singer was performing in Atlantic City, New Jersey on a stop along his Darius Rucker Live Tour when his voice gave out only a few songs into the concert. Rucker had only gotten through three songs in his set when he realized he wouldn’t be able to go on with the performance.
You’ll see in the video that Darius was a bit shaken and visibly upset about the sudden loss of his voice, and he even said it was the first time that it had ever happened in his career as an artist. Rucker also added that he’d play one more song – which ended up being “Wagon Wheel” – and that he’d make it up to everyone that was there:
“Y’all I can’t sing anymore. I will play one more song. I promise you we’re going to figure this out. You’re gonna get your money back. We’re gonna figure this out. I just can’t sing.
I’ve never done this before. This is the first time this has happened in my 40-year career. This has never happened. I physically can’t sing, and I promise you on everything that I stand for, I will make this up to you.”
@carotheblondie Darius had to end the Atlantic City show a few songs in. Feel better Darius we love you!!!!#dariusrucker #wagonwheel #atlanticcity ♬ original sound – carotheblondie
Tough to find out that the concert you paid for – and potentially traveled for – was called off, only to then get serenaded with “Wagon Wheel.”
The day after Darius Rucker walked off the stage in Atlantic City after profusely apologizing, the country artist cleared up just how he was going to make it up to all of the concert goers. Though he explored rescheduling the tour date, he and his team ended up deciding to just offer refunds to those who were in attendance.
Rucker made the announcement via his Instagram story, saying:
“Atlantic City… thank you so much for coming out Saturday night. I feel awful and I’m so sorry — I have never lost my voice in all my years of performing.
We looked at every option to reschedule, but unfortunately, it’s just not possible this year, so we’re issuing full refunds. The venue will send details to you directly. Thank you so much for all your kind messages wishing me well. Love y’all and see you soon!”
That’s a bummer for fans in Atlantic City.
And when this all went down, I looked at Darius Rucker’s tour schedule and noticed that he didn’t have much time to recuperate between that canceled show and his next scheduled date on Darius Rucker Live Tour in Hollywood, Florida. The New Jersey show was on July 12, and back-to-back Florida shows were staring Darius down on July 19 and 20.
That’s not a lot of recovery time, and the situation was made all the more challenging by having two shows in two nights on the schedule. And I haven’t even mentioned the fact that Rucker was only three concerts into his tour that features over 40 total dates (across three different countries) when his voice gave out on him for the very first time.
But it appears that there’s good news on the Darius Rucker voice front.
When reached out to for comment on whether or not the 59-year-old country music star would continue on his Darius Rucker Live Tour, his Nashville-based publicist Ebie McFarland relayed this message to USA Today:
“There is no further interruption in his touring schedule. Following vocal rest, Darius has been cleared to resume shows.”
There you have it. Darius Rucker is rested up and ready to get back out on stage.
Hopefully all goes well the rest of the way for Rucker. He’ll undoubtedly be taking his Florida shows very seriously (in terms of preparation), and I’d imagine he’ll have some sort of system in place to potentially ensure that what happened to him in Atlantic City won’t happen to him again. Wonder if he’ll open the next concert with “Come Back Song?”The post Darius Rucker Clears Up The Future Of His Tour After Losing His Voice At Recent Concert first appeared on Whiskey Riff.