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Sugarland cancels summer tour, which included hometown Atlanta stop

Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush play to the crowd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium fior ATLive on Nov. 15, 2019. Photo: Ryan Fleisher/Special to the AJC.

Credit: Ryan Fleisher

Credit: Ryan Fleisher

Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush play to the crowd at Mercedes-Benz Stadium fior ATLive on Nov. 15, 2019. Photo: Ryan Fleisher/Special to the AJC.
By Melissa Ruggieri
May 17, 2020

Sugarland has canceled its summer tour, which was scheduled to kick off June 4 in Toronto and hit the band's Atlanta hometown near the end of the run, on July 31 at Ameris Bank Amphitheatre.

The 26-date outing was dubbed "There Goes the Neighborhood," a precursor to a new Sugarland album of the same name. In a recent conversation with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kristian Bush said the new Sugarland music is recorded and ready to go, but he now isn't sure of the release timeline. (I'll have more with Bush later this week in our Mic Check feature.)

The Atlanta date on the tour would have also featured Mary Chapin Carpenter and Tenille Townes.

Sugarland most recently played Atlanta in November, as part of the "ATLive" concert series at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. 

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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