{"id":664394,"date":"2026-08-31T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664394\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:40:15","slug":"karen-o-misses-daisy-chain-fields-appearance-due-to-family-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664394\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen O Misses Daisy Chain Fields Appearance Due to &#8216;Family Emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Very sad to miss such a herstoric music event, but I\u2019m where I\u2019m most needed, with family back east,&#8221; Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer says after missing special guest spot during Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s set<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/karen-o\/\" id=\"auto-tag_karen-o\" data-tag=\"karen-o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karen O<\/a> was forced to cancel her appearance at Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/daisy-chain-fields\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daisy-chain-fields\" data-tag=\"daisy-chain-fields\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daisy Chain Fields<\/a> festival on Saturday due to a \u201cfamily emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer was billed as a \u201cspecial guest\u201d for the inaugural Irvine, California fest; Stevie Nicks and Sarah McLachlan, the other special guests on the lineup, ultimately joined Rodrigo onstage during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-stevie-nicks-sarah-mclachlan-alanis-perform-1235614614\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her headlining set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHowever, an unannounced Alanis Morissette instead performed \u201cIronic\u201d alongside Rodrigo during the set, with Karen O missing the gig entirely. On Sunday morning, she took to social media to explain her absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI was unable to perform at Daisy Chain due to a family emergency,\u201d Karen O wrote. \u201cVery sad to miss such a herstoric music event, but I\u2019m where I\u2019m most needed, with family back east.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe singer continued, \u201cSo much gratitude to Olivia for her advocacy for women, by women, who totally rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRodrigo acknowledged Karen O\u2019s absence during the headlining set before introducing Morissette was a surprise guest. \u201cThe bad news is that unfortunately Karen O is not able to make it tonight, I\u2019m so sad,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cShe was so excited to come, she was one of the first people to say yes to Daisy Chain. But unfortunately she had an unexpected personal matter that requires her to be elsewhere. But let\u2019s send her a bunch of love, all of us, collectively. I love her so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Very sad to miss such a herstoric music event, but I\u2019m where I\u2019m most needed, with family back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,275051,18,117,19,17,280713],"class_list":["post-664394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-daisy-chain-fields","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-karen-o"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}