Zach Bryan Wears 'Free Palestine' Shirt at Gillette Stadium
Country star and bandmates display solidarity with Macklemore at venue owned by Robert Kraft weeks after rapper's tour removal.
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- Zach Bryan wore a "Free Palestine" shirt at Gillette Stadium on October 2.
- Band members also wore matching shirts in apparent solidarity with Macklemore.
- Robert Kraft owns Gillette Stadium and was involved in Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour.
- Macklemore was removed after pro-Palestinian statements at MetLife Stadium in September.
- Multiple openers left the Sheeran tour in protest of Macklemore's removal.
Zach Bryan performed at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Friday night wearing a black T-shirt reading "Free Palestine," with his bandmates also spotted in matching shirts. The venue is owned by the Kraft Group, led by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
The wardrobe choice came weeks after Kraft played a central role in removing rapper Macklemore from the remaining U.S. dates of Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour over the rapper's pro-Palestinian statements onstage. Macklemore had declared "Free Palestine" and performed his protest song "Hind's Hall" during opening sets at MetLife Stadium in early September.
“The victims are the Palestinian people — the men, women, and children who have been killed, starved, displaced, and forced to live through unimaginable violence.”
Kraft confirmed his involvement in a statement on September 14, saying he felt a responsibility to speak up when he believed a line had been crossed on antisemitism, while acknowledging Palestinian suffering is real. Sheeran said the following day the removal was the promoter's decision, not his.
The fallout prompted fellow openers Finneas, Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham, and Irish folk band Beoga to exit the tour in solidarity. Macklemore later pledged $1 million from his touring revenue to humanitarian aid in Gaza, Sudan, and the Congo.
Bryan did not address the shirt from the stage during his concert, the first of two dates on his With Heaven On Tour at the stadium.
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