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Kid Rock apologizes after cigar complaint

WARREN, Mich.

Kid Rock has apologized after a man complained that the musician smoked a cigar at a nonsmoking venue in the Detroit area.

Randy Snell says Kid Rock lit the cigar while attending country singer Travis Tritt’s show Friday at Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren.

Spokesman Nick Stern told The Detroit News that Kid Rock offered his “most sincere apologies” to patrons he may have offended. He said he had been drinking alcohol.

Fifty-eight-year-old Randy Snell, of Trenton, has asthma and says he plans to file a health-department complaint. Michigan law prohibits smoking at workplaces including bars and restaurants.

Kid Rock was born Robert Ritchie. He grew up in and lives in suburban Detroit.

Keith Urban’s benefit concert to be April 10

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Keith Urban has rescheduled a benefit concert for April 10.

He had to postpone the third annual “All For The Hall” Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum fundraiser in Nashville on Jan. 18 because he’s still recovering from having a polyp removed from a vocal cord late last year.

His first return to the stage since mid-November is expected to be Feb. 3 at the Grand Ole Opry.

Hall of fame members Vince Gill and Alabama, and Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert’s Pistol Annies, Rascal Flatts, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Band Perry, Thompson Square and others will perform in the benefit concert along with Urban.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 27. He’s raised about $1 million so far.

Associated Press