He’ll play his music in the sun — but Steve Miller has his limits.
Citing weather worries, The Steve Miller Band has officially cancelled its entire 2025 North American tour, including a scheduled stop at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.
The Old City concert, originally set for October 24, was expected to be one of the highlights of the fall concert season.
Its cancellation came as part of a sweeping decision by the band to call off all 31 tour dates due to what Steve Miller described as “unacceptable” risks posed by extreme weather events.
In a statement released July 16, the band pointed to worrisome weather trends—extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding—as central reasons to ground the eagle.
“Always trust your instincts,” the band wrote on an Instagram post. “The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable.”
Some fans called the preemptive decision “odd” and “ridiculous” — while others sympathized with Miller’s call — especially given his advancing age.
“The man is 81 years old,” one person wrote. “Feel lucky we have gotten to see him play live this long.”
The band emphasized that all tickets will be automatically refunded.
The cancellation came just weeks before the tour’s planned kickoff on August 15 in Bethel, New York, and would have run through November 8 in Anaheim, California.
The move drew national attention, as few major acts have cited climate change as a reason to cancel an entire tour.
The Steve Miller Band, formed in the late 1960s and known for hits like “Fly Like an Eagle” and “The Joker,” had been actively touring in recent years.
This would have been one of their most extensive runs in the last decade.
