“It breaks my heart,” singer writes after canceling concert hours before show time
Mariah Carey, an official purveyor of Christmas cheer, put an unlikely lump of coal in fans’ stockings Wednesday when she canceled her annual holiday tour’s stop in Pittsburgh just hours before show time.
“Pittsburgh, I am sorry to say, I’ve come down with the flu,” Carey wrote on social media hours before the gig. “It breaks my heart that I unfortunately have to cancel tonight’s show. I love you all so much.”
Pittsburgh, I am sorry to say, I’ve come down with the flu. It breaks my heart that I unfortunately have to cancel tonight’s show. I love you all so much.
— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) December 11, 2024
Some fans didn’t learn about the last-minute cancelation until they arrived at Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena. “We didn’t get anything telling us that it was cancelled,” one family that traveled from Youngstown, Ohio told WTAE. “We didn’t know until we arrived and we saw a paper you know when you get to the entry to get your ticket for it there was a paper taped on.”
Carey last performed Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her next scheduled show — if she recovers in time — is Friday night at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center.
Her Christmas Time Tour, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of her 1994 album Merry Christmas and its hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” will conclude with two New York shows, December 15 at Belmont’s UBS Arena and December 17 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
