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Greta Van Fleet postpones sold out Nashville concert

Grammy Award-winning rock upstart Greta Van Fleet postponed Sunday night’s scheduled appearance in Nashville.

Slated to perform a sold out show at Municipal Auditorium, the band cited “persisting illness” as reason for postponing the tour stop. The Michigan blues rock outfit rescheduled the show for Dec. 16.

Tickets purchased to Sunday’s show will be honored in December, a statement from the band said. Fans unable to make the rescheduled date can seek a refund at point of purchase.

“With wholehearted disappointment, we must share that we are unable to join the beautiful people of Nashville tonight due to persisting illness,” the statement said. “We wish we could’ve shared this news earlier, but have been doing everything possible to try and see you.”

It’s the second postponement this weekend for Greta Van Fleet, following a New Orleans tour stop also rescheduled for December.

Greta Van Fleet Drop Massive Hiatus Bombshell

Greta Van Fleet discussed their new song “Always There” appearing in the film A Million Little Pieces in a new MCall interview, and bassist Sam Kiszka said he doesn’t think the band need a break.

“It’s really cool to see that change,” bassist Sam Kiszka — who with his brothers Josh on vocals and Jake on guitar and drummer Danny Wagner make up the band — says in a phone call from a tour stop in Dallas. “I think we’ve packed two years into one, at least. And I like that business plan, because we’re young and we can do it. And I think the worst thing you can do, especially as an artist is sit idle.”

“So I’m really thankful for the fact that we have been going so fast and working hard. And it’s really paying off and we see a response from people. .. And there is so much energy in these rooms. It radiates off the audience and it infects us with great energy. It only makes the shows bigger and better, you know?”

Rockers Greta Van Fleet, playing The Met Philly!

Just two years ago, then-budding rock band Greta Van Fleet played a show in the lobby of F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre to a couple of hundred people.

But at that show, it was clear the Michigan-based band whose members’ average age was then under 20 was headed somewhere. Cocksure and astonishingly talented, the band cranked out a set of Led Zeppelin-soundalike songs from what then was its only record, the four-song “Black Smoke Rising,” and new songs it would release later.

Two months later, Greta Van Fleet played a side stage at the Rock Allegiance festival at BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, and not only stole much of the crowd from the main stage, but stole the show, as well. And six months after that, Greta Van Fleet sold out Philadelphia’s Electric Factory.

Now, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Greta Van Fleet will play sold-out shows at the 3,500-capacity The Met Philadelphia.