{"id":2059928,"date":"2025-09-30T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2059928"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:56:23","slug":"cat-stevens-postpones-north-american-tour-due-to-visa-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cat-stevens-postpones-north-american-tour-due-to-visa-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Stevens postpones North American tour due to visa issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK \u2014 Cat Stevens has postponed his tour of the U.S. and Canada<\/a> due to unspecified visa issues.<\/p>\n

The London-born artist, who also goes by Yusuf, was set to promote his new book and play a little music in six U.S. cities and Toronto<\/a>, beginning Oct. 2 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaiting months for visa approvals, we held out as long as we could. However, at this point, the production logistics necessary for my show cannot be arranged in time<\/a>,\u201d Stevens wrote Monday in a Facebook post. \u201cI am really upset! Not least for my fans who have bought tickets and made travel plans to see me perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book, \u201cCat on the Road to Findout,\u201d will still be released as scheduled<\/a> on Oct. 7. Stevens noted in his post that \u201cbooks don\u2019t need visas!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevens, 77, most recently performed in the U.S. in 2016. That tour was part of his return to secular music<\/a>, after he spent multiple decades off the mainstream radar following his 1977 conversion to Islam.<\/p>\n

The upcoming tour was scheduled to stop in Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The New York show was to occur at the Beacon Theatre<\/a> in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Stevens promoted the tour<\/a> as \u201can in-depth conversation about his new memoir\u201d with \u201cselect acoustic performances of songs that have defined generations.\u201d He said Monday there is still a chance the performances will be rescheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose dates would be some time away because of other travel tour plans but, hopefully, fans will be able to hop on the Peace Train route at some time in the future,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Cat Stevens has postponed his tour of the U.S. and Canada due to unspecified visa issues. The London-born artist, who also goes by Yusuf, was set to promote his new book and play a little music in six U.S. cities and Toronto, beginning Oct. 2 in Philadelphia. \u201cWaiting months for visa approvals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[363398,383980,383979,383978],"class_list":["post-2059928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cat-stevens","tag-production-logistics","tag-secular-music","tag-travel-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cat-Stevens-postpones-North-American-tour-due-to-visa-issues.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}