Days before kicking off in Tampa, Lauryn Hill’s US tour is canceled

Hill and the Fugees were supposed to play MidFlorida Credit Union on Friday.

click to enlarge Ms. Lauryn Hill, who was supposed to play MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 9, 2024. - Photo by Tracy May
Photo by Tracy May
Ms. Lauryn Hill, who was supposed to play MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 9, 2024.
Killing us softly, indeed. Tampa made it 43 days without a Lauryn Hill concert cancellation.

Late Tuesday afternoon—just three days before it was supposed to kick off in Tampa Bay—Hill's U.S. tour has apparently been called off.

That’s when Variety says ticket holders started getting refund notices, without any reason for the change in plans. Hill’s mostly inactive social media accounts have yet to address the news, but the show is wiped off the calendar for Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, which was supposed to host the first of 21 American dates on Friday, Aug. 9.

Fans of the eight-time Grammy winning songwriter, rapper and singer are probably used to it by now though. Hill’s reunion tour with The Fugees was originally supposed to land at Tampa’s Amalie Arena last December, but was postponed due to Hill’s vocal strain.

The 49-year-old rescheduled that show 215 days later, but now fans are back to square one and holding the bag just like they were in 2018 when Hill canceled a St. Pete show set for Al Lang Field.

Nothing even matters anymore.

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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