Tyler Childers Reschedules Tour Dates Due to Birth of New Child
Tyler Childers is currently touring behind his Grammy-winning album Snipe Hunter, but won’t be playing a couple of the upcoming tour dates. Instead he will be rescheduling his shows originally set for Wednesday (6-10) and Thursday (6-11) for August so he can be with his wife and fellow performer Senora May as they welcome their second child. The couple welcomed their first child in August of 2023.
“As many of you know, Tyler and Senora have been preparing to welcome a new baby,” a statement that was posted on Tyler’s Instagram story reads. “That time has come, and the decision has been made to reschedule the two upcoming shows only: Darien Lake Ampitheater on June 10th and Hersheypark Stadium on June 11th. The new shows dates will be August 13th – Darien Lake Ampitheater, August 14th – Hersheypark Stadium. Evan Honer will be joining both newly rescheduled dates.”
The statement continues, “All previous purchased tickets will be honored for the new dates. Fans who are unable to attend may request a refund at their original point of purchase for the next 30 days. We appreciate your understanding as we navigate this season.”
Despite the rescheduled dates, Tyler Childers will be right back at it on June 13th of the Buckeye Country Superfest in Columbus, OH. He also has a full slate of dates in July. See his remaining 2026 dates below.
However, Tyler Childers will not be the headliner once again for the annual Healing Appalachia festival, which has announced its cancellation for 2026 due to economic conditions.
“Hope in the Hills has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2026 festival,” they said in a May 28th statement.” Rising production costs and the current economic environment mean we need to focus our resources where they have always mattered most – recovery programs at the heart of this mission. Healing Appalachia will return September 10 and 11, 2027 at Boyd County Fairgrounds in Ashland, Kentucky. The mission continues, and we will be back.”
TYLER CHILDERS REMAINING 2026 TOUR DATES:
June 13—Columbus, OH—Buckeye Country Superfest
July 9—St. Louis, MO—Hollywood Casino Amphitheater
July 12—Chicago, IL—Wrigley Field
July 14—Kansas City, MO —Morton Amphitheater
July 15—Des Moines, IA—Casey’s Center
July 18—Boulder, CO—Folsom Field
August 13—Darien Center, NY—Darien Lake Amphitheater
August 14 —Hershey, PA—Hersheypark Stadium
September 26 – Ohana Festival – Dana Point, CA
September 30—Sacramento, CA—Golden 1 Center
October 2—Seattle, WA—Climate Pledge Arena
October 3—Portland, OR—Moda Center
October 8-10 – Good Moon Festival – Durham, NC
June 10, 2026 @ 8:23 am
These modern country singers really will just cancel for any trivial event, huh?
June 10, 2026 @ 8:51 am
Though it might be fair to question the reschedulings, I don’t think it’s fair to characterize the birth of a child as a “trivial” matter.
June 10, 2026 @ 8:55 am
I read Senora May wasn’t due until August which would make this unforeseen and a very serious matter. Tyler didn’t have anything scheduled in August so you can conclude he did initially plan around the birth.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:07 am
If you look at Childers schedule he was off from July 18th – September 26th. That was his maternity leave. I would be very surprised he plays Buckeye Country Superfest on the 13th.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:35 am
This was also probably a big reason they are not doing Healing Appalachia this year, because Childers could not commit as the headliner.
The thing about Buckeye Country Superfest is that if Childers cancels, especially this close, they’re absolutely screwed. He’s the headliner, and so they would basically have to cancel the whole thing, or pull in a headliner at the same level with a similar fan base, so basically Sturgill Simpson or Billy Strings on a day’s notice. It also can’t be rescheduled like the tour dates. So my guess is all stops will be pulled out for Childers to be there. It’s also pretty close to him, relatively speaking. He could fly in and out, and only be gone from home for six hours.
June 10, 2026 @ 10:00 am
I’m sure Buckeye is working the phones finding a replacement. The news isn’t even 24 hours old at this point.
Tyler is scheduled to be back on the road September 26th, that was days after Healing Appalachia was supposed to happen. I’d bet Healing Appalachia never comes back. The organizers were to scatterbrained and worried about chasing fame and bigger artists (Chris Stapleton) and notoriety than the cause itself. They envisioned themselves as the next Farm Aid and were going to get people off all drugs (not just opioids anymore), teach them how to eat, and get them jobs. If they stuck to the original mission statement of opioid education for the region and kept it regional artists and at the WV fairgrounds, we’d be having Healing Appalachia this year.
June 10, 2026 @ 1:18 pm
To Trigger – Randy Owen tried that at Fan Fair in 1981. His wife went into labor in Ft. Payne, bad weather grounded all flights out of Nashville and he missed the birth of his only son.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:01 am
Makes me think of John Anderson’s “I Wish I Coulda Been There”.
June 10, 2026 @ 10:43 am
I don’t think of that one, because I recall it was a pretty inferior retake on Harry Chapin’s somewhat schlocky, but bona fide classic, “Cat’s In the Cradle.”
June 10, 2026 @ 9:32 am
I read that original comment as facetious, to be honest. I don’t think the individual was being serious.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:53 am
I’m with you on that. I’ve seen people joke about forgetting to use the sarcasm font, and some folks use the /s for sarcasm. Some of us just let sarcasm fall where it may.
June 10, 2026 @ 3:13 pm
I truly thought that even in these benighted days the sarcasm would have been obvious. I am in a constant state of overestimating people.
June 10, 2026 @ 4:01 pm
Well I stand corrected. The issue is apparently I can be held responsible for any comment left in this comments section, and it can be used to attack the entirety of my credibility. So if I have any question of whether something is legit or not, I have to pipe up.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:17 am
Tyler should cancel his tour to go on Hook.
June 10, 2026 @ 2:29 pm
And drink free beer.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:02 am
I cannot think of a better reason. He is right to put family first. I saw him last year and he was outstanding. One artist, I would definitely go and see again.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:20 am
Unrelated but I saw him live last Friday and the songs on Sniper Hunter sound so much better without all the goofy ahh production
June 10, 2026 @ 10:49 am
In more important news, Wheeler Walker is having a Farewell Fuckers tour called “Pullin Out.” Guess that jig is up. Hope he drink a lot of beer and _____ a lot ______s.
June 10, 2026 @ 12:59 pm
Congrats to Tyler! New kid is gonna have a challenge though, as Tyler’s best song (and one of the best songs in all the genre), hands down, is about his wife, so bar is high for the song about his child.
June 10, 2026 @ 2:06 pm
If it was your first kid, i’d understand, but not for the 2nd. Go do your job.
June 10, 2026 @ 11:22 pm
Pretty dumb take. Despite the festishes of people on here its not 1951 anymore. Parents take time to take care of their kids.
Even besides that, Tyler’s enormous talent and success affords him the right and the resources to take as much time off as he wants to he with his family, and ignore the petulant whines of the “go back work” gomers who hold nothing over him.
June 11, 2026 @ 3:03 pm
If your wife is pregnant and you want to be there, don’t schedule a tour at the same time. Irresponsible. Unless it was an emergency, which from statements it doesn’t seem the case. Many of us lost travel and lodging costs to go see him for him to cancel with less than 24hrs notice and now lost a ton of money because you can’t cancel a hotel or travel when your already here.
June 22, 2026 @ 2:13 pm
Or given the big hole in his schedule for late summer and his announcement mentioning that the baby was due late summer and here we are in the very beginning of summer, it’s entirely possible that there are complications involved or a dangerously premature birth and all of the planning around the due date went out the window.
June 12, 2026 @ 1:13 pm
I have no real opinion about this particular circumstance, but in general– there’s probably nothing that even comes close to the dollar amount of personal financial damage these artists inflict on their fans thru the sheer number of cancellations they do. LOL! It’s not impossible that an unlucky country music fan has had more shows cancelled on them than shows actually attended.
At a certain point you have to start pricing in the risk premium of buying a ticket to a country music show.