A Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire concert at Chase Center in San Francisco was postponed Thursday night after a band member suffered an emergency just minutes before the scheduled start.
The venue said the emergency was announced just after 7:20 p.m. for a show set to begin at 7:30 p.m., leaving little room for anything except a stop. The concert had already been in motion as an event people were preparing to enter, then it was suddenly pushed off the night’s calendar.
Chase Center said the show with Lionel Richie will be rescheduled and that a new date will be announced soon. Ticket holders were told to keep their tickets, which will be honored for the new date, or seek refunds at the point of purchase.
That clarity applied to Lionel Richie, but not fully to Earth, Wind & Fire. The venue did not say whether the Earth, Wind & Fire performance would also be rescheduled, and it did not identify which band member had the emergency or what happened.
For now, the key fact is simple: the concert did not go on as planned, and the next move belongs to the venue. The new date will settle the part of the night that was interrupted; until then, ticket holders know only that their tickets are being held in place for a future show or can be refunded where they bought them.
