
September 24th, 2026
Having been ousted from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, Grammy Award-winning artist Macklemore is poised to make his return to the live stage before long.
The rapper has unveiled “Free Palestine,” a series of concerts whose entire proceeds are to be donated to Palestinian aid organizations.
The run will commence with a trio of dates next month across Europe.
It kicks off at Dublin’s 3Arena on Oct. 26, followed by Paris’ Accor Arena on Oct. 29 and London’s OVO Arena Wembley on Oct. 30.
Further artist announcements, along with U.S. dates, are imminent.
An artist presale is set to commence at 10 a.m. local time on Monday at Macklemore.com.
According to a press release from Live Nation, the shows will benefit several Palestinian aid organizations, including Anera, Glia, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Taawon, HEAL Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement, Middle East Children’s Alliance, Jewish Voice for Peace, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Institute for Middle East Understanding, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, and UNRWA USA, a U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
“If these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it’s that something has shifted over the last three years.
There has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires who try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now,” Macklemore wrote on Instagram in the caption of his “Free Palestine” announcement.
“When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.”
Last week, Macklemore attracted considerable media attention when it came out that he had been dropped as an opening act for Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America because of the rapper’s onstage pro-Palestinian comments.
Since then, all of Sheeran’s other supporting acts have pulled out, including a group that plays with Sheeran during part of the show.
At the time, Sheeran maintained that the decision to cut Macklemore from the Loop Tour had been the promoter’s, rather than his own.
Macklemore asserted that his removal stemmed from an initiative spearheaded by Robert Kraft, the billionaire proprietor of the New England Patriots.
His Kraft Group likewise controls Gillette Stadium, the venue where the NFL franchise competes and where Sheeran is slated to perform later this month.
Macklemore further disclosed that he would allocate $1 million of his net tour proceeds to six organisations providing assistance to Palestinians.
September 24th, 2026

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