Kentucky charity apologises after deceptive publish about Taylor Swift touring in 2026
A Kentucky charity group has apologised after seemingly deceptive followers into pondering Taylor Swift will return to touring in 2026.
Final week, Kentucky’s Unbridled Eve charity organisation made headlines when it listed a Taylor Swift package deal for public sale at its upcoming Could 2 occasion, the Derby Gala. Included within the package deal are a guitar signed by Taylor, and two tickets to a future Swift live performance. The organisation wrote on the itemizing per Rolling Stone: “Two live performance tickets throughout her upcoming 2026 tour.”
The publish despatched Taylor Swift’s followers right into a frenzy, because the pop musician has but to announce any plans of returning to the stay stage because the conclusion of her intensive Eras tour late final 12 months.
Over the weekend, Unbridled Eve issued a public assertion, noting that they misspoke within the itemizing and have since updated the auction piece to reflect “two tickets for a live performance throughout her subsequent tour”. Unbridled Eve additionally apologised for the mix-up.
They wrote: “In the newest Unbridled Eve press launch, we inadvertently listed one in every of our auctions objects as a ‘Signed guitar by Taylor Swift and two live performance tickets throughout her upcoming 2026 tour.’ Our deepest apologies for getting the Swifties excited, however it ought to have mentioned ‘Guitar signed by Taylor Swift and two tickets for a live performance throughout her subsequent tour.’ We now have no information in any respect of when that tour will happen.”
Followers at the moment are upset that the organisation is even auctioning off tickets for unannounced reveals. Some wrote within the feedback of Unbridled Eve’s publish: “How do you public sale one thing that you just don’t know is ever going to occur???” and “So how do you public sale one thing that doesn’t exist?”.
Because the conclusion of Taylor’s Eras tour, the musician has principally been out of the general public eye, save for just a few appearances throughout the Grammys and awards season earlier this 12 months. She has but to announce new music or a brand new tour.
In a mirrored image of Taylor Swift’s monumental Eras tour, NME wrote pondering about her subsequent steps: “As a prolific author, with the newfound downtime Swift might very effectively head again to the studio and pen album quantity 12. Which ends up in an additional query: if there’s new music, what might the following Taylor Swift tour appear like? After the gargantuan, culture-defining Eras Tour, it’s onerous to fathom what Swift’s future as a stay performer holds. Is it one other tour of that scale or one thing fully totally different? Or is there nonetheless one other means we’ve but to expertise the Eras Tour – by means of the type of a stay album, maybe? Regardless of the solutions to those questions, one factor is for positive: as we attain the top of the street, Taylor Swift’s subsequent Period is ready to start.”