Journey and the Pretenders have canceled their 2020 tour. The massive 60-date trek was set to kick off on May 15th at Ridgefield, Washington's Sunlight Supply Amphitheater and run through September 12th when the tour wrapped at Bethel, New York's Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
Journey issued a statement on its official website Journeymusic.com, in which that band posted: “After carefully reviewing all options, the decision has been made to cancel the entire tour to make it possible for the band's legion of hardworking fans to immediately obtain access to refund options during these unforeseen and extremely challenging times.”
The band — notably only mentioning Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, and frontman Arnel Pineda and NOT ousted members Ross Valory and Steve Smith — posted a message to fans explaining their decision to scarp the outing in the face of the ongoing pandemic: