Author: Sterling Whitaker / Source: Taste of Country
There were some very disappointed fans in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday night (May 26), after Willie Nelson left the stage without playing a single song and did not return.
The 85-year-old country music legend was scheduled to perform a headlining set as part of the Outlaw Music Festival Tour date at the PNC Music Pavilion.
The fan-shot video above captures the moment that he enters the stage, walking gingerly and acknowledging the roar of the crowd with a wave.He goes over to his guitar stand and gets his guitar strap, and then he picks up Trigger, his trademark battered guitar. But before he even straps the guitar around his shoulders, he sets it back in its stand, takes off his cowboy hat and throws it into the audience before departing the stage on the opposite side from where he entered. He can be seen exiting through the stage door as his confused band members remain on stage, wondering whether he will return or not.
The video’s caption explains that it…
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