News / Published 2026-11-03

The Chicks Move Los Angeles Date Hours Before Doors, Citing Illness

The Chicks postponed their Dolby Theatre show in Hollywood on Monday, 2 November, hours before doors, and moved it to Wednesday, 4 November. Billboard and Rolling Stone both report that existing tickets remain valid and that refunds are available at the original point of purchase.

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The trio announced on Monday that the Dolby Theatre show would move to Wednesday, 4 November. Tickets stay valid and refunds are available, but neither report names the illness.

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THE SHORT VERSION

  • The Chicks postponed their Dolby Theatre show in Hollywood on Monday, 2 November, hours before doors, and moved it to Wednesday, 4 November.
  • Billboard and Rolling Stone both report that existing tickets remain valid and that refunds are available at the original point of purchase.
  • Neither report names the illness; Rolling Stone adds fan comments from people who had already travelled, and Billboard supplies the album and Grammy history behind the tour.

The announcement came hours before doors

The Chicks postponed their show at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Monday, hours before the doors were due to open, citing illness. Billboard and Rolling Stone both carry the announcement and the new date, Wednesday, 4 November. Neither report names the illness, and neither quotes a doctor or a venue official. The reason both print is illness, with nothing behind it.

The ticketing terms are the same in both accounts. Tickets already bought stay valid for the new date, and anyone who cannot attend can ask for a refund at the original point of purchase, according to a statement the group shared. Billboard dates the announcement to Monday, 2 November. Rolling Stone, published that day, leads on the timing rather than the reason, and puts the gap at hours before the theatre was scheduled to open its doors.

A tour built around one album, near its end

The group made the announcement on Monday, Nov. 2, and said that the performance had been rescheduled to Wednesday, Nov. 4. The date sits at the end of a long run. Both reports place the show inside the Taking the Long Way 20th anniversary tour, a cycle built around the album that Billboard calls one of the defining releases of the group’s career. Rolling Stone says the trio are currently wrapping that tour.

Billboard names the three: Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer. It adds that the anniversary has reached past the stage, with a 20th anniversary edition of the album extending the celebration beyond the tour, and that the set list mixes the album’s songs with material from the rest of the catalog. Neither report says how many dates follow the rescheduled one, or whether the illness affects anything beyond Los Angeles.

The 2006 record the tour is marking

The album at the centre of the run arrived in 2006. Billboard reports that Taking the Long Way debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and became both a commercial and a critical success, and that its most enduring single, “Not Ready to Make Nice,” reached No. 4 on the Hot 100. At the 2007 Grammys the group won five awards, including album of the year, and the single took record and song of the year. Billboard describes the record as one that pushed the group into a different phase, shaped by public controversy and artistic independence as much as by sales.

Rolling Stone frames the record as a reply to a specific fight. It was, the paper says, the first the band released after Maines said she was “ashamed” that President George W. Bush came from Texas, and denounced the Iraq War. Billboard places those remarks at a 2003 concert in London, notes that the record arrived after what it calls a turbulent period for the group, and says the anniversary tour revisits that chapter two decades later. Neither paper treats the album as separate from that argument.

What followed the 2003 remarks

Billboard reports that parts of the country music industry and conservative audiences turned on the group, that some country radio stations stopped playing its music, and that protests and boycotts followed. Rolling Stone is blunter about the same period: listeners bulldozed piles of the group’s CDs, and the band was jeered at live appearances.

Both papers treat the controversy as the album’s subject rather than its context. Billboard says the fallout became a major thematic thread on Taking the Long Way, particularly on the single, where the group addressed the pressure to apologise and its decision not to back down. Rolling Stone describes the song as a vow to keep speaking out regardless of the consequences. Neither paper reports a new statement from the group about that episode.

Fans who had already travelled

Rolling Stone is the only one of the two that reports audience reaction to the postponement. It says fans commented on the announcement, many of whom had travelled from out of state, and quotes two of them. One wrote that the trip had been planned months in advance and that they had “traveled 4+ hours and can’t attend Wednesday date”. Another had flown in from Canada with a mother-in-law and a fifteen-year-old daughter, and wrote: “We go home tomorrow, will miss the Wednesday show”.

Billboard carries no fan reaction and no comment from the Dolby Theatre. That difference shapes what each piece can support: the disappointment is documented by Rolling Stone alone, while the new date, the ticket terms and the album history appear in both. Neither paper reports how many tickets were sold for the original date, or whether the theatre is free on the new one.

What neither report says

The gap that matters most to a ticketholder is the one neither report fills. Neither names the illness, says who in the group or crew is affected, or reports whether the 4 November date is itself at risk. There is no statement from the venue and no word on the rest of the run. Billboard, published on 3 November, describes the show as rescheduled rather than cancelled, which is the one thing both papers state plainly.

Twenty years after an album that turned a boycott into material, the group is playing those songs in theatres, and a two-day delay is a small event next to the fight the record came out of. What a ticket-holder still cannot learn from either report is the nature of the illness or how the decision was made. Related coverage on this site includes Cheap Trick’s touring break, Noah Kahan’s 2027 tour and Powderfinger’s 2027 reunion tour.

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