The mayor of Pittsburgh has denied claims made by Morgan Wallen, saying that the singer never consulted city public safety officials before cancelling a recent show.
The comments relate to a show in the Steel city that was meant to go ahead this Saturday (June 6), but was cancelled just hours before doors opened due to the threat of “severe weather”.
Wallen played at the Acrisure Stadium on Friday (June 5) but axed his second date at the arena, telling fans at around 1pm that his team spoke with “local officials” and found that they had “no choice but to cancel tonight’s show due to severe adverse weather conditions” expected in the area.
He was strongly criticised for the move, particularly as the worst of the weather cleared up by 3pm – well ahead of the 8pm start time.
Wallen then doubled down on the decision later on, taking to Instagram to reaffirm that the move was made out of concerns for fans’ safety, and done with guidance from the local government.
BREAKING: MORGAN WALLEN IN PITTSBURGH CANCELLED!!!! pic.twitter.com/0Ii0oLxoZO
— Andrew Fillipponi (@ThePoniExpress) June 6, 2026
“This morning, my team walked on my bus, told me that they had been consulting with local officials, and that I should cancel my show in Pittsburgh tonight. And I said, ‘Why?’ They said that there was going to be strong winds in the area. And I said, ‘OK.’ So that’s what I did, and that was the information I had in the moment, and I trusted my team,” he said.
He also added that in severe weather conditions, his stage “could become fatal to a lot of folks around it”, and said that he “did the best I could with the information I had in that moment”.
Now, Pittsburgh’s mayor Corey O’Connor has refuted these claims, and alleged that there was no one in his administration who was contacted by Wallen’s team ahead of the show being scrapped.
“There was no contact to Public Safety or my administration so however the artist and his team picked to not have the show, that was on them, there was no consulting for Public Safety or the City of Pittsburgh,” he said when speaking on KDKA Radio.
“If you’re going to say that you consulted … that’s one story, we, again, had no record of that from public safety director, all the way down.”
Wallen said on social media his team worked with city officials…. Mayor O'Connor says they didn't know anything about the show being cancelled. https://t.co/jNAqCyL9mN pic.twitter.com/2u324DSNKo
— 100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA (@KDKARadio) June 8, 2026
The mayor also alleged that he was told officials at Acrisure Stadium were not notified of the cancellation ahead of time either.
Wallen has not yet responded to the comments from O’Connor, nor addressed the cancelled show again since posting that aforementioned video on Instagram Stories.
At the first night at the stadium, which did go ahead as planned, Wallen got fans talking after grabbing a security guard’s phone and throwing it during the set. The country star is seen in footage, which has now gone viral, noticing that a security guard is filming the show, and going on to throw her phone to one side of the stage.
Before then, another show on his ‘Still The Problem’ tour saw him flip over a piano, seemingly out of frustration at technical difficulties.
The tour continues in Chicago later this month, and all dates come in support of his last album ‘I’m The Problem’, which dropped last year and featured guest appearances from Tate McRae, Eric Church, Hardy, Ernest, and Post Malone.