If you’ve gone to the grocery store over the past few days and noticed that the lines are long and shelves are more bare than usual, then you’ve seen how people are preparing for what weather forecasters have warned could be a historic winter storm this weekend. Expected to begin on Friday and last through Monday, CNN reported that winter storm Fern could drop more than a foot of snow, as well as potentially blackout-inducing ice storms across a 1,500-mile swath from Texas to the Northeast, with 10 states already declaring states of emergency.
With 1,300 flights scheduled for Saturday (Jan. 24) canceled and the potential for hazardous road conditions across the South, Midwest and Northeast, the list of concerts that have been postponed out of an abundance of caution began to grow by Friday morning (Jan. 23), including Matchbox20 singer and solo star Rob Thomas. “Due to forecasted weather, my performances benefiting Sidewalk Angels Foundation, originally scheduled for January 23 (Bristol, VA), January 24 (Cincinnati, OH), and January 25 (Rockford, IL) 2026, have been rescheduled,” Thomas wrote on X of the shows that have been pushed, respectively, to Feb. 27, Feb. 28 and March 1.
The Band Perry went a step further and canceled their run of shows in Oklahoma this weekend and told fans in an Instagram post to hold onto their tickets for rescheduled gigs on July 2 in West Siloam Springs and July 3 in Tulsa. Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium postponed its shows on Saturday and Sunday, including its Nashville: The Encore Tour, which was pushed to Jan. 27, a gig by gospel great Mavis Staples with MJ Lenderman (now scheduled for Jan. 31) and a show by comedian John Crist (moved to March 8).
Jason Aldean‘s planned show at the Charleston Coliseum on Saturday has also been rescheduled, pushed back to Aug. 21. In addition, 1980s prog metal band Queensrÿche show on Sunday at the Choctaw Casinos & Resorts in Pocola, Okla. has been rescheduled for May 9.
With more than 160 million people under winter storm and ice alerts through the weekend, Billboard will continue to monitor the situation and update this story as it develops.
