The singer-songwriter originally postponed the run in late September
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has officially canceled his North American tour after postponing it in late September due to visa issues.
The singer-songwriter was scheduled to travel around the country in early October to promote his new memoir, Cat on the Road to Find Out. The trek was billed as an evening of “tales, tunes, and other mysteries,” but just weeks before it was set to kick off, Yusuf warned that the tour was in jeopardy because of “significant delays in U.S. immigration processing.”
Yusuf wound up postponing the tour, but held out hope that he and his band would receive their official travel documents in time to play some shows. But that never happened, and as Yusuf revealed in a statement Thursday, Dec. 4, “Unpredictably, and befuddling to us all, the actual visa finally got delivered after the last scheduled date of the tour had passed.”
Ticketholders will be refunded at the point of purchase. Of his decision to cancel the tour, Yusuf added: “I know how disappointing this must be for those of you who were looking forward to the book tour. My agent and team explored every possible avenue, but it was all beyond our control. I’m grateful for your patience and your support and I hope something new may be put together in the future, in better and brighter circumstances.”
Yusuf published Cat on the Road to Find Out in October, and you can check out the 10 things we learned from the book. These include the songs that spawned from his fling with Carly Simon; his thoughts on the role he played in the fatwah issued against author Salman Rushdie; and how he almost wound up with the nickname “Splat Stevens.”
