Backlash grows against Ed Sheeran over Macklemore cancellation
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Ed Sheeran's US tour has been plunged into further crisis after four of his supporting acts, including his touring band, quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage. Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore's ousting, Irish singer Aaron Rowe, Irish folk band Beoga and US musician Finneas posted on Tuesday that they would withdraw from Sheeran’s Loop Tour. Meanwhile, Lukas Graham – another supporting act – has withdrawn from the tour. Other support acts who performed with Sheeran during earlier legs of his tour, such as Irish folk band Biird and singer Myles Smith, also spoke out on Wednesday to back Macklemore. All of the current support acts on Sheeran’s Loop tour have dropped out of the remaining dates following US rapper's removal, after he said he wanted people in Gaza and the West Bank to know they had not been forgotten during a show at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey In a response on the soc
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