Kelly Clarkson has pulled out of a planned performance at Miranda Lambert’s Band Together Texas flood benefit show in Austin, Texas on Sunday (Aug. 17). While the singer has not commented on the news, according to Taste of Country Band Together Texas revealed on its Instagram Story earlier this week the Fort Worth native will not appear due to “personal circumstances.”
The full statement read: “Unfortunately, Kelly Clarkson will be unable to appear at Band Together Texas as planned, due to personal circumstances. We send out love to Kelly and her family.”
Clarkson was slated to appear at the event at the Moody Center in Austin to help raise funds for the Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation in support of Texans who were affected by July’s deadly flooding. In addition to Lambert, the show’s roster includes Parker McCollum, Cody Johnson, Ronnie Dunn, Lyle Lovett, Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall, Ryan Bingham, Lukas Nelson and others; Clarkson’s name had been removed from the official poster at press time.
The show will also feature appearances by Texas native actors Matthew McConaughey and Dennis Quaid, as well as baseball legend Rogers Clemens.
Last month, the Guadalupe River in the Hill Country region of Texas rapidly rose due to an overnight deluge on July 4 that led to the deaths of at least 135 people, including at least 27 campers and counselors at the Christian Camp Mystic summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe.
Earlier this month, Clarkson postponed the remainder of her Las Vegas Studio Sessions residency shows for August citing the ill health of her ex-husband and father of her two children, River and Remy, music manager Brandon Blackstock. Blackstock died of melanoma at age 48 on Aug. 7. The couple married in 2013 and divorced in 2022.
Fans who want to support the Band Together event can make a donation here and watch the livestream on both Lambert and McCollum’s social channels beginning at 7 p.m. CT on Sunday.
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