The rockers were scheduled to play on the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday in addition to spring dates on the Beale Side road Tune Pageant; the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Pageant; Columbia, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; Daytona Seashore; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Boston Calling Tune Pageant; and summer time dates in Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and the United Kingdom.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that Foo Combatants verify the cancellation of all upcoming excursion dates in mild of the staggering lack of our brother,” the band stated in a observation Tuesday.
Hawkins died Friday all over a South American excursion with the rock band. He was once 50.
“We’re sorry for and proportion within the sadness that we received’t be seeing one some other as deliberate,” the band’s observation learn. “As an alternative, let’s take this time to grieve, to heal, to tug our family members shut, and to understand the entire song and reminiscences we’ve made in combination.”
Hawkins was once Alanis Morissette’s traveling drummer when he joined Foo Combatants in 1997. He performed at the band’s largest albums together with “One by means of One” and “In Your Honor,” and on hit singles like “Very best of You.”
In lead singer David Grohl’s 2021 e-book “The Storyteller,” he known as Hawkins his “brother from some other mom, my highest buddy, a person for whom I might take a bullet.”