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Yes, Drake Has Canceled His Denver Concert Rescheduled for April

The September shows had been pushed to January, then April. And now?
Drake will perform with J. Cole at Ball Arena on January 18 and 19.
Drake will perform with J. Cole at Ball Arena on January 18 and 19. Miles Chrisinger
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It's déjà vu all over again.

"Event Canceled," reads the notice on Ticketmaster. "Unfortunately, the Event Organizer has had to cancel the event."

And that event would be Drake's rescheduled rescheduled performances that had been set for April 15-16.

Originally, Drake was to bring his It's All a Blur Tour - Big As the What? tour to Ball Arena last September, when he would be joined by 21 Savage. But that date was canceled, and in November it was announced that his new tour would instead begin with fellow Grammy winner J.Cole at Ball Arena January 18-19.

But on January 15, Drake announced that these dates were postponed, too: He would be in Denver on Monday, April 15, and Tuesday, April 16, after the tour started in Tampa in February.

And now? No new dates have been offered, much less an explanation for the previous cancellations. Just an email to some ticket-holders, as well as the cancellation notice online.

The Canadian rapper, born Aubrey Graham (and whom some still remember as Jimmy from Degrassi), released his first mixtape as Drake in 2006 and has since taken home five Grammys out of 51 nominations. He comes from a creative family: His uncle Larry Graham was a member of Sly and the Family Stone, while his uncle Teenie Hodges contributed to the Al Green hits "Love and Happiness," "Take Me to the River" and "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)."

Drake's 2024 tour — what there's been of it, since two other cities were just cancelled, too — follows the immensely successful It's All a Blur Tour, in which the rapper played fifty sold-out arena shows around North America. He also released his eighth studio album, For All the Dogs, which includes a collab with J. Cole.  Find more Denver concerts at our concert calendar.
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