{"id":805071,"date":"2020-03-10T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=964955"},"modified":"2020-03-10T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:04:52","slug":"santana-cancel-european-tour-amid-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/santana-cancel-european-tour-amid-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Santana Cancel European Tour Amid COVID-19 Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/santana-plots-tour-2017-c720ad35-d20e-418b-b2b3-cdc28425950e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great disappointment that I have to inform our fans that we are canceling our upcoming Europe Tour,\u201d President of Universal Tone Management, Michael Vrionis said in a statement. \u201cMany countries have made the decision to restrict public gatherings in excess of 1,000 people to curb the potential spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we deeply regret this unfortunate circumstance, the safety of our fans is the main priority for the Santana Organization,\u201d he added. \u201cWe will keep you all informed of new performance dates as they are made, and will make every effort to return to Europe soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Miraculous 2020 World Tour, the shows were scheduled to kick off on March 14th at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy, with a show in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, the next day. All refunds are available through point of purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Santana is just one of the many acts canceling or postponing tours globally due to the ongoing pandemic. On Monday alone, Madonna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-madame-x-coronavirus-cancelation-964579\/\">canceled the remainder<\/a> of her tour in Paris, while Kiss canceled upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kiss-cancel-meet-and-greets-amid-coronavirus-worries-964710\/\">meet-and-greets<\/a>. Hours later, Pearl Jam announced they would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pearl-jam-postpone-gigaton-u-s-tour-due-to-coronavirus-964842\/\">postponing their upcoming North American tour<\/a> in support of their new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/pearl-jam-gigaton-964544\/\"><em>Gigaton.&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Santana will resume performing on May 13th, when they launch their intimate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/santana-las-vegas-residency-2020-947194\/\">Las Vegas residency<\/a> titled <em>An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live.<\/em> This summer, they\u2019ll embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/santana-earth-wind-fire-summer-tour-957711\/\">joint tour<\/a> with Earth, Wind and Fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/santana-cancel-european-tour-coronavirus-964955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is with great disappointment that I have to inform our fans that we are canceling our upcoming Europe Tour,\u201d President of Universal Tone Management, Michael Vrionis said in a statement. \u201cMany countries have made the decision to restrict public gatherings in excess of 1,000 people to curb the potential spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).\u201d \u201cWhile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 15:22:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}