Kid Rock-Led ‘Rock The Country’ Music Festival Canceled In SC

MAGA’s answer to Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, received’t be hitting the stage in South Carolina, of all locations, after his music pageant was canceled.

Kid Rock’s “Rock the Country” music pageant is not going to be going down in Anderson County, South Carolina, after officers there confirmed to The Post & Courier that the two-day live performance deliberate for July 25–26, 2026, on the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Center is now canceled.

County administrator Rusty Burns advised the native information outlet that officers had been notified the night time of February 5 that the pageant was now not occurring, however they didn’t obtain a transparent cause for its cancellation.

“We weren’t advised a cause,” Burns mentioned. “It occurs within the enterprise. We had a superb, two-year run.”

While they weren’t given a cause, it might be because of the mass exit of music acts related to the pageant.

On February 6, Shinedown introduced to its followers that it could now not be part of the pageant on account of considerations about division related to the occasion.

“SHINEDOWN is everybody’s band,” the group wrote in a press release shared on X. “Our band’s goal is to unite, not divide. We don’t wish 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 Faith, and Ludacris, after dealing with intense backlash on account of their participation.

Reps for Ludcris declare his involvement was “a mix-up.”

“Lines obtained crossed, and he wasn’t purported to be on there,” Ludacris’ rep advised Rolling Stone.

Kid 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 identify has since been faraway from the lineup.

The “Rock The Country” tour launched by Rock is billed as an eight-date summer season sequence. While the Anderson date is formally scrubbed, Ocala, Florida; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Hamburg, New York are nonetheless occurring… for now.

If Kid Rock can’t even entertain Anderson, South Carolina, how on the earth do MAGA snowflakes assume he’s going to compete with Bad Bunny, who’s the most-streamed artist in your entire world?

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