Bon Jovi abruptly ended their sold out Madison Square Garden concert 90 minutes in Thursday night, as frontman Jon Bon Jovi has been dealing with a sinus infection.
The rocker indicated he was OK and would try to reschedule the show.
“Don’t throw away your ticket stubs I’m going to figure something out, OK? Don’t [fear],” Bon Jovi told the audience, according to People and fan videos from the show. “Just hang onto it, I’m going to figure out how to reschedule.”
“I’m gonna have to cool it for a night,” he added, before exiting the stage, People reported. “I feel great, I’ll see you again soon, bye bye.” He had previously brought out Train singer Pat Monahan to join him on “Livin’ on a Prayer,” which was the last song of the shortened show.
A rep for Bon Jovi said in a statement, “Jon Bon Jovi spoke from stage and told fans he has been battling a sinus infection which led to the show’s early ending. As part of the Bon Jovi residency at Madison Square Garden, Jon has said numerous times that it has been a joy to return to live shows for the band. Updated information will be available shortly.”
Bon Jovi is in the midst of their Forever Tour, which kicked off with a nine-show run at Madison Square Garden. The group is slated to play their final MSG show of the tour on Sunday night before heading to the U.K. and Ireland at the end of August.
The tour, on which the eponymous frontman is joined by original members Tico Torres and David Bryan as well as Hugh McDonald, John Shanks, Phil X and Everett Bradley, is the first for Bon Jovi since the singer had surgery in 2022 to repair a damaged vocal cord, which was documented in the Hulu docuseries Thank You, Goodnight.
Though in 2024 he had expressed some concern about whether his voice was up to the rigor of performing live night after night, before the tour he told People he was “fully recovered.”
“It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right,” he added of his recovery. “We never lost faith.”
He told People that a doctor had told him the cord was “atrophying.”
