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Santigold cancels US tour: “I will not continue to sacrifice myself for an industry that has become unsustainable”

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Santigold has announced that she is cancelling all of her upcoming tour dates because she “will not continue to sacrifice myself for an industry that has become unsustainable for, and uninterested in, the welfare of the artists it is built upon”.The musician was due to tour the US In October and November in support of her new album ‘Spirituals’, which was released earlier this month.

However, that tour will now not go ahead.In a lengthy statement, she told fans: “For the past several years we have all been through immense challenges, some physical, some mental, some spiritual, some economic”.“And yet, as we have begun to trudge on, much of the toll of that experience has been left untended as we rush back in, attempting to make up for lost time, to reconnect, catch up on bills unpaid, to escape the insanity that had begun to set in.

For many of us, the landscapes we are re-entering are not the same”.“As a touring musician, I don’t think anyone anticipated the new reality that awaited us”, she goes on. “After sitting idle (not being able to do shows) for the past couple years, many of us like everyone else, earning no or little income during that time, every musician that could, rushed back out immediately when it was deemed safe to do shows”.“We were met with the height of inflation – gas, tour buses, hotels and flight costs skyrocketed – many of our tried-and-true venues unavailable due to a flooded market of artists trying to book shows in the same cities, and positive test results constantly halting schedules with devastating financial consequences.

All of that on top of the already-tapped mental, spiritual, physical and emotional resources of just having made it through the past few years.

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