Veteran rockabilly trio The Stray Cats won\u2019t be hitting the road for its 2025 fall concert tour after all.<\/p>\n
Citing \u201cserious illness,\u201d the band\u2019s guitarist-singer, Brian Setzer, announced Tuesday morning the cancelation of the entire 21-city tour, including its Nov. 20 show at The Sound in Del Mar. The tour also included three other California dates: Nov. 18 in Highland, Nov. 22 in Santa Rosa and Nov. 23 in Wheatland. Ticket refunds are available at point of purchase for the tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m heartbroken to share, due to serious illness, I am unable to perform and very regrettably have to cancel our Stray Cats tour,\u201d Setzer, 66, said in a statement released Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this affects so many people and I am devastated to have to deliver this news. I\u2019ve been trying everything I can to go on and do these shows, but it is just not possible. I\u2019ve been looking forward so much to being on stage with my band mates again and playing for all of our amazing fans, and I\u2019m gutted.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tour would have been the first by The Stray Cats since last summer, when the band\u2019s 2024 coast-to-coast concert trek included a San Diego date at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. In February, Setzer disclosed he had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and was no longer able to play guitar.<\/p>\n
The disease, which he has not specifically identified, appeared to have struck him toward the end of last year\u2019s Stray Cats\u2019 tour when his hand repeatedly cramped and he found it increasingly challenging to play guitar.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no pain, but it feels like I am wearing a pair of gloves when I try to play,\u201d he wrote in a February social media post. \u201cI have seen some progress in that I can hold a pen and tie my shoes. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I was at a point where I couldn\u2019t even do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuckily, I have the best hospital in the world down the block from me. It\u2019s called the Mayo Clinic. I know I will beat this, it will just take some time.\u201d In a subsequent post in late March, Setzer wrote that he was making \u201cexcellent\u201d progress.<\/p>\n
The Stray Cats\u2019 2025 fall tour was scheduled to kick off with shows this past Saturday and Sunday in Michigan and Illinois. Both were quietly shelved last week.<\/p>\n
Setzer is a longtime solo recording artist for Surfdog, the Encinitas-based label that in 2019 released The Stray Cats\u2019 40th anniversary album, \u201c40.\u201d Last Friday saw the release of two new recordings by the band, an original composition, \u201cStampede,\u201d and a cover version of Eddie Cochran\u2019s 1959 song, \u201cTeenage Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran rockabilly trio The Stray Cats won\u2019t be hitting the road for its 2025 fall concert tour after…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,171,1370,5424,3549,7264,1072,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-338740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-music-and-concerts","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-things-to-do","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115452747728311286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}