Overview

• Organizers announced via Instagram Story that Clarkson would be unable to perform and the event website has since removed her from the roster.
• Band Together Texas, spearheaded by Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum, remains on schedule for Aug. 17 at Austin’s Moody Center with other confirmed country artists.
• The concert will raise funds for communities affected by July’s flooding through the Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation.
• Earlier this month, Clarkson postponed the remainder of her Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace to be with her children while Blackstock’s illness was ongoing.
• Brandon Blackstock, Clarkson’s ex-husband and father of their two children, passed away on Aug. 7 at age 48 after battling melanoma.