Video shows members of the 18,000-person crowd throwing beer cans and other trash after a sheriff's department officer announced the cancellation late Friday.
The performance was nixed at the last minute, after more than two hours of fans watching Night Ranger perform for the opening act. There was reportedly wind and lightning on the outskirts of town, which had delayed Kid Rock's show.
Fans were captured on video hurling beer cans and bottles toward the stage following news that the event was canceled, upset because it appeared the storm was beginning to clear.
Rock announced in January, before his 2022 tour kicked off, that he wouldn't play any venues with mask and vaccine mandates.
In a four-plus minute video, the Picture singer told fans they would be refunded for tickets if the venues still had such COVID-19 mandates by the date of any of his scheduled concerts.
'There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine mandates and venues. People saying, "I'm not going to that venue because of the vaccine mandate" and this, that, and the other,' he began in the clip shot seemingly at his home studio.
'Trust me, we've done all our research on this and the consensus says that all this is going to be done, if there are any at these venues, I'm not aware of any, but if there are any, they're going to be gone by the time we get to your city. If they’re not, trust me, you don't have to worry. You'll be getting your money back because I won't be showing up either.'
By the time 11 o'clock rolled around, lots of folks in the 18,000-strong audience were pretty drunk ... and pissed because it seemed as if the storm had passed.
An officer from the Ward County Sheriff's Department then walked up to the mic and announced the concert was canceled.
KR took to Twitter to apologize to his fans, blaming Mother Nature. The North Dakota State Fair also released a statement citing safety concerns and promising to issue refunds to ticket holders.
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