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Six Canadian Shows From MAGA Musician Sean Feucht Are Cancelled
This week, the Christian singer was set to take the stage at various cities across the East Coast — all of which, have been axed.
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Six Canadian venues have cancelled Christian singer Sean Feucht's shows.
After Parks Canada revoked Feucht’s permit for his show — initially scheduled to take place on a Nova Scotia historical site — on Tuesday (July 22), other Canadian cities have followed suit.
Feucht unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress as a Republican in 2020 and has spoken out against abortion rights, "critical race theory," and the 2SLGBTQ+ community on his website.
The U.S. artist and missionary’s Let Us Worship: Revive in 25 tour had an extensive Canadian leg, including 11 dates between July and August. This month’s subsequent stops included Charlottetown (July 24), Moncton (July 24), Quebec City (July 25), Ottawa (July 26) and Toronto (July 27).
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In a Tuesday night news release, Parks Canada notified the organizer that the permit had been revoked, due to “evolving safety and security considerations.” The following morning, Feucht announced the Halifax show’s new venue to social media followers, calling it a “new location that's even better than the old one."
“They can cancel our permits across Canada but they cannot steal our JOYYYYY!!!!!!” Feucht posted to X and attached a video of presumed concert-goers dancing to music in the field.On Wednesday, the City of Charlottetown cited “evolving public safety and security concerns,” cancelling Feucht’s Thursday morning show at Confederation Landing. However, the singer secured a new location — Christian entity Faithworks Centre Church, just outside the island’s capital.
That same day, Feucht’s Thursday show at Moncton’s Riverfront Park was cancelled after the city deemed it didn’t comply with its facility’s code of conduct and represented a “potential risk to the safety and security of community members, event attendees, and organizers.”
Feucht took to social media and pleaded for “any bold pastors/churches” to host the evening concert — Bar None Camp in Taxis River was up to the task, almost 200 kilometres northwest of Moncton.
Additionally, Feucht’s scheduled performances in Quebec City and at Jacques-Cartier Park North in Gatineau were cancelled on Wednesday, as the latter venue, overseen National Capital Commission, cited “concerns about public safety and security” in a statement to the National Post.
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Yesterday, (July 24), the City of Vaughan cancelled Feucht’s Sunday (July 27) special event permit due to “health and safety and community standards and well-being,” per the Toronto Star. Feucht was set to conclude the first leg of his Canadian tour at the Dufferin District Park.
While Feucht hasn’t publicly shared if he will seek out new venues for the cancelled concerts, he did issue an "official" statement following the P.E.I. show.
“Here’s the hard truth: If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a word,” he wrote. “But to publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labelled an extremist — and to have a free worship event classified as a public safety risk.”
He explained that his Let Us Worship movement was created in response to COVID-19 policies, which in Canada, “were among the most oppressive in the world.”
The second leg of Feucht’s tour is scheduled to hit Canada’s West Coast in August with shows in Winnipeg (August 20), Saskatoon (August 21), Edmonton (August 22), West Kelowna (August 23) and Abbotsford (August 24).
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