MAGA’s reply to Dangerous Bunny, Child Rock, received’t be hitting the stage in South Carolina, of all locations, after his music pageant was canceled.
Child Rock’s “Rock the Nation” music pageant won’t be happening in Anderson County, South Carolina, after officers there confirmed to The Publish & Courier that the two-day live performance deliberate for July 25–26, 2026, on the Anderson Sports activities and Leisure Middle is now canceled.
County administrator Rusty Burns instructed the native information outlet that officers had been notified the evening of February 5 that the pageant was now not taking place, however they didn’t obtain a transparent cause for its cancellation.
“We weren’t instructed a cause,” Burns mentioned. “It occurs within the enterprise. We had , two-year run.”
Music Acts Are Pulling Out of The Rock The Nation Pageant
Whereas they weren’t given a cause, it might be as a result of mass exit of music acts related to the pageant.
On February 6, Shinedown introduced to its followers that it might now not be part of the pageant attributable to issues about division related to the occasion.
“SHINEDOWN is everybody’s band,” the group wrote in a press release shared on X. “Our band’s objective is to unite, not divide. We don’t need to take part in one thing we imagine will create additional division.”
Shinedown bowing out got here after a number of different artists mentioned nah to the pageant, together with Morgan Wade, Carter Religion, and Ludacris, after going through intense backlash attributable to their participation.
Reps for Ludcris declare his involvement was “a mix-up.”
“Strains received crossed, and he wasn’t purported to be on there,” Ludacris’ rep instructed Rolling Stone.
Child Rock, Nelly, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Jelly Roll, and Brooks & Dunn are nonetheless on the invoice, no shock there.
Creed was additionally part of the pageant at one level, and was even featured as an act on the now-canceled Anderson date, however their title has since been faraway from the lineup.
The “Rock The Nation” tour launched by Rock is billed as an eight-date summer season collection. Whereas the Anderson date is formally scrubbed, Ocala, Florida; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Hamburg, New York are nonetheless taking place… for now.
If Child Rock can’t even entertain Anderson, South Carolina, how on this planet do MAGA snowflakes suppose he’s going to compete with Dangerous Bunny, who’s the most-streamed artist in all the world?
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