The Montreal International Jazz Festival will not end as planned next Saturday. Closing event headliner Macy Gray “unfortunately will not be able to attend this year,” the organization said on its social media, citing “reasons beyond [son] control “.
In an email sent to The Pressthe Spectra team specifies that the absence of Macy Gray is linked to “an agenda problem”.
The funk group The Brooks and its guests, Dominique Fils-Aimé and Hanorah, will take the stage in place of the American singer-songwriter.
Montreal fans of the interpreterI Try are not their first disappointments. Last year, a show that was to bring together Macy Gray and Joss Stone at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier was canceled due to the pandemic. They can, however, cling to a glimmer of hope: the Jazz Festival indicated on Facebook that “it is only a postponement”.
With Alexandre Vigneault, The Press