Browsing: Robert Kraft

Three weeks after Robert Kraft kept Macklemore off his stadium’s stage, Zach Bryan played Gillette in a black “Free Palestine” T-shirt. Here’s how the row started, who has said what, and what comes next.

Both of Ed Sheeran’s weekend shows at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium have been canceled because of a nor’easter, ending two weeks of controversy over Macklemore’s removal from the tour at the one venue where it began.

Macklemore says he is giving the full $1 million he earned from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour to six organizations supporting Palestinians, and has publicly invited Patriots owner Robert Kraft – who blocked him from Gillette Stadium – to match the donation.

All four remaining support acts walked away from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour within hours of each other after Macklemore was removed over an onstage call for a free Palestine. Here is how the stand-off reached that point, and where the accounts diverge.

Ed Sheeran says dropping Macklemore from eight US stadium dates was the promoter’s call, not his. Here is what each side has actually said – and where the three accounts stop matching.