US country singer Jason Aldean suffered a heat-related medical incident during his concert at the XFinity Theatre in Connecticut on Saturday night, forcing the show to end early.
He says he is now on the mend.
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“I’ve had a lot of people checking in on me today after hearing about what happened last night at the show,” Aldean said on Sunday in a video posted to his Instagram Story, going on to thank those who checked in.
“I’m doing fine,” he said.
He added he thinks he suffered “a combination of dehydration and heat exhaustion”, but stopped short of saying he suffered heat stroke.
“I don’t think it was quite that serious,” he said.
Aldean said he received two IVs following the incident.
“It was pretty intense last night at the show – anybody that was at the show knows how hot it was,” he said.
“I was trying to get through as much of the show as I could and eventually it was just like, I knew it wasn’t going to happen and I was trying to just get off stage and figure out what was going on.”
Videos posted to social media by concertgoers show Aldean clearly struggling to get through a song before he is seen running offstage.
He went on to thank his fans for coming out to the show and said “obviously, that’s not the way I wanted the show to end” on the first week of his Highway Desperado tour.
Show will be rescheduled
The venue posted a statement Sunday morning on its verified Facebook page saying Aldean’s show will be rescheduled for a future date, and a representative for Aldean confirmed “he is now doing well”.
“We’ll come back and make it up to you,” Aldean promised in his Instagram video.
“I’m feeling a lot better”, he said, and confirmed he is still set to perform his show in Saratoga Springs on Sunday.
Recent backlash
Aldean has come under fire recently for his new music video, released on Friday, for his song Try That In A Small Town.
The video features footage of protesters clashing with police and the US flag being set on fire while Aldean sings lyrics about how small towns are “full of good ol’ boys, raised up right” and how embarking on the aforementioned actions in one will lead you to see “see you far you make it down the road”.
The song has been criticised for evoking imagery of sundown towns, a term for towns where Black people are advised to leave by sundown to avoid racially motivated violence.
Others have criticised the song for its pro-gun lyrics in combination with Aldean’s own concert shooting history.
During his Route 91 Harvest music festival performance in 2017, a man opened fire on the audience and killed 60 people.
It was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in US history.
-With Dominique Tassell
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