Vanilla Ice set to play a 2,500 capacity gig in Austin, Texas this weekend

Vanilla Ice has finally thawed his stone-cold stance on hosting a concert amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerRapper and DIY Network home renovator Vanilla Ice has decided not to go forward with a planned July 4 concert in Austin, Texas.The show, planned for the Emerald Point Bar & Grill, is located on the shores of Lake Travis and touted its outdoor restaurant and extensive grounds as safety features.But Texas, as well as several other states, has seen a strong resurgence of coronavirus cases.

Vanilla Ice just dropped out of his performance in Austin, Texas, stating that he wasn’t aware the COVID-19 situation was so out of control in the city. TMZ says that the rapper first scheduled the concert a long time ago, but considering the rise of the coronavirus in Texas, the rapper believes now is no longer the time for him to perform.

Vanilla Ice cooled off plans for a concert in Texas after taking considerable heat for an event that sought to gather hundreds of fans in one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots.The 1990s rapper with the hit single “Ice Ice Baby” had been scheduled to play a lakeside show just outside Austin on Friday (July 3), but on Thursday he announced it was being postponed.“Due to the increase in COVID-19 numbers in Austin we’re gonna move the concert to a better date,” Vanilla Ice tweeted.

1990s-themed 4th of July concert in Austin, Texas, because of the coronavirus pandemic.“Due to the increase in COVID-19 numbers in Austin we’re gonna move the concert to a better date,” he wrote in a caption for a video posted Thursday on Twitter.

Vanilla Ice is listening to the concerns of his fans. The 52-year-old performer took to Twitter on Thursday ahead of his scheduled Fourth of July performance in Austin, Texas, to reveal that he had decided to cancel following backlash.Writing that he was moving the show to «a better date,» the «Ice, Ice, Baby» rapper told fans in a video message, «Basically, I'm not going.

Vanilla Ice has cancelled his Fourth of July concert after drawing extensive criticism over his disregard for social distancing. The 52-year-old “Ice Ice Baby” rapper was originally slated to perform at the “Independence Day Throwback Beach Party” at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill in Austin.

Rapper Vanilla Ice has indefinitely postponed his concert in Texas after receiving heavy criticism for planning the event in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. He was set to perform at a 2,500-capacity concert in Austin on Friday despite a recent surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state.

surging cases of COVID-19 in the area.The rapper was set to perform live on July 3 at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill near Austin. The scheduled concert had local health officials in an uproar, given that the state hit a new record of confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday."I'm going to give you a little update about the concert in Austin," Ice said in an Instagram video on Thursday.

Vanilla Ice will no longer be celebrating Independence Day like it’s the ’90s.

Vanilla Ice knows we’re in the middle of a global pandemic, but collecting his coins seems a lot more important to him at the moment!

Rapper Vanilla Ice is set to perform at a 2,500-capacity concert in Texas on Friday despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the state. The singer, known for his popular 1990 song, "Ice Ice Baby," is throwing the throwback Fourth of July weekend celebration in Austin, with its theme rooted in nostalgia during the global pandemic.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle, best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is scheduled to perform at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill in Austin, Texas on Friday, according to a social media post from the venue.

via Instagram that he will be holding a July 4 throwback concert in Austin, Texas — one of the states currently seeing a rise in coronavirus cases.Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle, said that the concert will feature hit songs from the 90s.“The 90s were the best. We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers.

a post on his Instagram page, writing, “I can’t wait to get back to this. The 90s were the best.