Ditsy Chicks Canceling Dates in the Heartland

The ongoing PR problems for the Ditsy Chicks continue. Back in June I wrote about the lagging tickets sales for their summer tour, and now there's work that concerts are being canceled:

Several concerts on the Dixie Chicks'"Accidents & Accusations" tour have been canceled after slow ticket sales, but the group says it has replaced them with other dates.

Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Memphis and Knoxville are among 14 cities no longer on the original schedule released in May, according to a revised itinerary posted Thursday on the Dixie Chick's Web site.

Other shows, including Nashville, Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix, have been pushed back to later dates.

The North American leg of the tour kicked off July 21 in Detroit. Billboard magazine and other trade publications have reported lackluster sales in some markets, particularly in the South and Midwest.

Group spokeswoman Kathy Allmand said Monday that the total number of North American dates remains the same, with several Canadian cities added in place of the U.S. shows.

The trio released a statement last week attributing the changes to attempts to "accommodate demand" and said more dates might be added next year.

It sounds like "accomodating demand" is not a real problem right now. When you cancel dates, you are "accomodating a lack of demand" (though the Canadians still seem to like them). Sending antiwar protesters to Canada is nothing new in this country, so I hope they have a great time up there - eh!