Zach Bryan Breaks Gillette Stadium Record With “Free Palestine” Shirt
For his second night performing at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan broke a record and made a statement.
While once again wearing his “Free Palestine” shirt during Saturday’s show on his With Heaven on Tour, the Grammy winner boasted the venue’s largest ever turnout with more than 73,000 in the audience.
“Tonight, Zach Bryan broke the Gillette Stadium attendance record with 73,538 fans!” Gillette Stadium shared on Instagram.
Bryan previously made waves on Friday with his first show at Gillette, wearing his “Free Palestine” shirt on stage after Kraft and other venue owners pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from his tour over his outspoken support for Palestinians.
The show comes after Sheeran was forced to cancel his Gillette Stadium shows last weekend amid a nor’easter headed for Boston, despite caving to Kraft’s demands.
Sheeran dropped Macklemore from his tour last month amid an outcry around the opener’s “Free Palestine” onstage remarks. Opting to remain publicly neutral on the issue, Sheeran subsequently released a statement saying it was the “promoter’s decision” after Kraft assembled several of the tour venues to give him an ultimatum.
Following the statement, fellow tour openers Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham dropped out of the tour, along with Sheeran’s backing band Beoga.
Meanwhile, Macklemore announced the Free Palestine Tour last week, which is “supporting the Palestinian people and movement,” running 10/26-10/30 in Dublin, Paris and London. He since gave an update that the tour “sold out immediately.”
