Brooks & Dunn Texas Tech Concert Rescheduled After Explosion, Fires on Campus
Concert has been rescheduled and will take place Thursday, March 20.
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Country Music Hall of Fame duo Brooks & Dunn has rescheduled its concert that had been slated for Thursday night (March 13) at United Supermarkets Arena on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, after an explosion in a tunnel apparently sparked fires around the campus on Wednesday evening, leading to power outages and campus evacuations, according to lubbockonline.com.
Brooks & Dunn’s Instagram page shared an IG story from Texas Tech, which stated, “Brooks & Dunn’s performance at United Supermarkets Arena originally scheduled for tonight, March 13, has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 20, due to the events on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, on Wednesday, March 12.”
The statement added that all previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new show date and that additional tickets are also available. Refunds are also available at point of purchase.
Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec released a message to the campus community late Wednesday evening, noting that classes at Texas Tech have been canceled and the campus closed for Thursday and Friday. The message read in part, “Wednesday (March 12) evening, an explosion occurred in a tunnel, causing a fire. The fire spread, leading to outages on the Texas Tech campus. Electricity and gas were shut down across both the Texas Tech and Health Sciences Center campuses in Lubbock to keep the fire from spreading further. The fire was successfully extinguished Wednesday evening…We want to share our deepest gratitude to our campus emergency response teams, as well as the City of Lubbock, Lubbock Fire Rescue, Lubbock Police Department, Lubbock Power & Light, Atmos Energy and others, for ensuring the safety of our campus community.”
Brooks & Dunn are still slated to perform upcoming concerts at Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on Friday and at American Bank Center Arena in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Saturday. They will also perform at RodeoHouston on March 22.
