Classic rock group Steve Miller Band has abruptly canceled all dates for its upcoming American tour.
The band canceled all 31 dates, beginning August 15th in Bethel, New York, and concluding on November 8th in Anaheim, California.
In a straightforward message, Steve Miller and the band blamed the cancellation on extreme weather events apparently caused by ‘climate change.’
“The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable,” the band said in a statement posted to social media.
“You can blame it on the weather…The tour is cancelled,” it continued.
— Steve Miller Band (@SMBofficial) July 17, 2025
Variety wrote:
Miller’s career received a boost from his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2016, and he has been reissuing select items from his catalog since moving it all over to Universal Music Group the following year. He remains a strong performer, but his age and the dim prospects of weather trends improving in the foreseeable future means that another tour seems unlikely.
Variety said it’s possibly the first time a music group canceled a tour because of “climate-induced weather disasters” instead of a single event.
The Steve Miller Band has canceled all dates for its 2025 North American tour due to the general trend of climate change-induced weather disasters:
"The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you… pic.twitter.com/3qLu5mEtx6
— Variety (@Variety) July 17, 2025
Some social media users weren’t buying the excuse.
Are you serious? I’m a big fan and got tickets for this tour , but next time please find a bette excuse.
— Alberto Marchena Jr. (@marchenajr) July 17, 2025
Blaming global warm— Pardon me, "climate change" for poor ticket sales. 🤣
— JGmajor7 (@JGmajor7) July 17, 2025
Well, I guess I will not listen to your music again. I choose to stay away from woke the woke culture and apparently you are part of it.
— Eduardo Toro (@EduardoTor6658) July 17, 2025
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Fans expressed their disappointment over the cancellation in the band’s Facebook comments.
“All these things have always existed. To blame it on the weather sounds a little suspect,” one person wrote. “Better stay in bed everyday, something bad might happen otherwise…too risky,” another said.
The rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966, with their greatest hits from 1974-78 receiving the RIAA diamond award for more than 15 million copies sold, according to its website.
Following Miller’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2016, he spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about how he fell in love with music.
“When I was 4 ½ he showed me my first chords,” he told PEOPLE in September 2017 of electric guitar pioneer Les Paul.
“I got to see him play in a nightclub because my dad was recording his show every night,” Miller said. “I saw him perform a lot and right then and there I saw how much fun you could have playing guitar. He made it look like anyone could do it. I was 4 and ½ and I went, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ ”
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