Another tour date canceled

The July 26 stop in Syracuse, N.Y., of the Lollapalooza tour has been canceled because of slow ticket sales and higher production costs at the venue, the 30,000-seat Vernon Downs racetrack, Lollapalooza officials said Thursday.

The venue required new production facilities, according to Lollapalooza. “Due to the costs of production versus the estimated ticket sales of 15,000, it did not make fiscal sense to play this date.” Two other dates have been canceled.

One observer doesn’t consider the latest cancellation a sign of trouble for the tour, which will visit 30 cities by the time it wraps Aug. 24 in Portland, Ore. “I don’t know that it’s the hottest ticket of the summer,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the industry magazine Pollstar, “but it’s not like they’re making wholesale changes.”

Lollapalooza, which features Jane’s Addiction, Queens of the Stone Age and Audioslave, reaches Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Aug. 16. The show is sold out.

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Randy Lewis