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Brooks & Dunn fans were left wanting more Thursday when the band unexpectedly cut their encore short.
In a video posted to TikTok, Ronnie Dunn, one-half of the renowned country music duo, can be seen exiting the stage midway through a performance of the group’s hit “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” at the end of their concert. The group is currently traveling for their Neon Moon tour, which is set to wrap up at the end of April.
Dunn tells the Indianapolis crowd to “sing it if you know it,” before walking away from the microphone himself, gesturing to a bandmate that he is done performing and shaking his head. He taps his chest a few times and points to the audience before leaving the stage for good.
“Feel better, Ronnie!!! Thanks for giving us all you could,” the video, posted by radio host Matt Malone, is captioned.
“Ronnie wasn’t feeling well from being sick, but Saturday night’s show went on as planned,” a rep for the band shared in a statement with USA TODAY Monday.
Dunn, 71, is one of two vocalists for Brooks & Dunn, a country music combo responsible for much-loved hits like “Neon Moon” and “Cowgirls Don’t Cry.”
The duo, rounded out by fellow singer-songwriter Kix Brooks, 69, rose to popularity in the early 1990s and enjoyed widespread success for over a decade.
In 2009, Brooks & Dunn announced they would stop performing together after finishing one more tour.
They both performed as solo artists for five years before reuniting in 2015. They’ve performed together ever since and released the album “Reboot” in 2019.
In 2024, they followed it up with “Reboot II,” a greatest hits cover album padded with guest vocals from some of country music’s biggest modern acts. Kacey Musgraves and Morgan Wallen, who teamed up for a newly imagined “Neon Moon,” are among in the featured artists.
“Good music is good music and hearing how country — especially Brooks & Dunn songs — fit into the DNA of what defines ‘good music’ for this generation is exciting,” Dunn told the Nashville Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY Network, in 2024.
Contributing: Shad Powers, The Desert Sun; Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean
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