Anita Baker Cancels ATL Show at Last Minute, Upends Mother’s Day Gifts

Some Anita Baker fans are scrambling for Mother’s Day presents this morning following the singer had to pull the plug on her exhibit in Atlanta just a various minutes prior to it was supposed to get began.

Anita’s present at Situation Farm Arena was packed Saturday evening, as a lot of admirers gifted the concert tickets to their moms to celebrate the weekend. We can see it … Anita on Saturday evening, brunch on Sunday and you may well be really excellent.

These styles had been scrapped, even even though, substantially significantly less than 15 minutes just before the curtain was scheduled to go up … as lovers who had been now in the arena uncovered out the show would NOT be most likely on this time.

An e-mail from the venue talked about it was “for the reason that of to late, unexpected predicament.” No extra details was presented, apart from to say definitely absolutely everyone would get a refund. As you can visualize, some lovers had been annoyed as they filed out of the arena.

Nonetheless, some expressed concern for Anita, figuring it have to have to be a small some thing really lousy for her to cancel that way.

We have reached out to Anita’s reps for a lot extra context, but have however to hear back.

The Grammy-winner’s tour previous 12 months also ran into a handful of snags — practically anything from specialized issues with significant screens … to a conflict with her opening act, Babyface, immediately after his set was canceled to make time for hers adhering to a technical delay.