DOWN has announced two “pop-up” shows in Louisiana this week after their previously scheduled concert in Mescalero, New Mexico, was postponed due to two rapidly growing wildfires converging on a village within a tribal reservation.
The long-running heavy metal supergroup, featuring vocalist Philip H. Anselmo, guitarists Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein, drummer Jimmy Bower, and bassist Pat Bruders, was set to perform on Thursday, June 20, at Inn Of The Mountain Gods Resort And Casino in Mescalero, New Mexico. However, the show was canceled after thousands of residents in southern New Mexico were ordered to evacuate, and the fires led to the partial closure of U.S. Highway 70 near Ruidoso.
The South Fork Fire started on Monday on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, prompting president Thora Walsh Padilla to declare a state of emergency.
$5 from each ticket sold at the DOWN pop-up shows will be donated to the Mescalero Apache Nation – South Fork Fire relief fund.
