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Jessie J Plays Acoustic Set for One Fan in Toronto After Cancelling Show Due to Snowstorm
After she was scheduled to play at Danforth Music Hall on Jan. 25, the British singer-songwriter shared a new social media post detailing her decision to forego the east end venue concert.
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Jessie J is looking out for the safety of her fans.
Yesterday (Jan. 25), the British singer was set to play a show at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto. But amid the city’s record-breaking snowfall, she decided to cancel the show.
"I don't feel comfortable having people risk their safety for the show,” the artist, born Jessica Cornish, wrote in a statement shared to Instagram stories. “I just can't imagine how people would get home in the dark with the weather like this.”
At the time of posting the message, she was “currently standing in the venue,” and noted that “getting here wasn't safe and the snow's only getting worse." According to her statement, all tickets will be refunded.
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Today (Jan. 26), she followed with video clips of her reacting to the snow from her hotel window, and a teary-eyed phone call with her management floating the idea of cancelling.
“I just don’t think it’s safe for people to travel out in this weather,” she explains in the video. “I would rather lose the money than the people that have spent their hard-earned money to come to the gig. I also don’t want to put my own crew at risk.”
“The news is telling the people to stay home, why would the f–k would I be like ‘come and see me sing ‘Price Tag,’” she quips, shouting out her 2010s hit, which cracked the top 10 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 over a decade ago.
The footage then shows Jessie J performing a small acoustic set for the crew and one lucky fan who had arrived at the venue before she broke the news of the cancellation.
“My decision to cancel yesterday wasn’t quick or easy,” she writes in the caption, providing more insight into her decision to forgo the concert. “They closed the metro at 7pm last night after I cancelled so even if people had got their safe it would have been almost impossible to get home.”
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She continues: “The heartbeats I am singing to is the one guy who was waiting in the snow when I arrived at the venue, or joined him shortly after I got there and I wanted to make them feel like their journey wasn’t wasted,” referring to the name of her fanbase and while calling it “an intimate show.”
It’s unclear when the U.K. singer will return to Toronto. In support of her 2025’s Don't Tease Me with a Good Time, the show had previously been rescheduled from last year, after Jessie J cancelled her tour to undergo breast cancer surgery.
As Toronto continues to grapple with the lasting effects of the show, more artists may be postponing or cancelling shows.
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