Heart Reschedules North American Concerts After Ann Wilson Cancer Scare
Heart‘s first tour in five years is back on! Following the postponement of sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson’s North American shows this summer due to the former’s recent cancer scare, the rock band has announced plans to resume their Royal Flush Tour with a slew of new dates scheduled for 2025.
Sharing an animated video set to the group’s 1975 hit “Crazy on You,” Heart broke the news of the band’s return to the road via Instagram on Monday (Sept. 9). “We can’t wait to resume the Royal Flush Tour in 2025!” the group wrote, directing fans to buy tickets on Heart’s website. “We hope to see all of you good people there!”
The new string of shows kicks off Feb. 28 in Las Vegas next year, followed by over a month of arena shows across Los Angeles, Phoenix, Boise, Montreal, Ottawa and more. As of now, the run ends April 5 in Quebec.
Heart’s announcement comes about three months after the “Never” musicians told fans that they were canceling their European dates — which had been slated for this past June and July — as Ann needed to “undergo a time-sensitive but routine procedure for which the minimum recovery time is six weeks.”
A month after that, the band discovered that the singer’s condition was more serious than originally thought, leading to the postponement of the now-rescheduled North American shows. “I underwent an operation to remove something that, as it turns out, was cancerous,” Ann wrote in a statement at the time. “The operation was successful & I’m feeling great but my doctors are now advising me to undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy & I’ve decided to do it. And so my doctors are instructing me to take the rest of the year away from the stage in order to fully recover.”
“Please know that I absolutely plan to be back on stage in 2025,” she’d added.
See Heart’s announcement below.
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