Mumford & Sons cancel U.S festival dates as bassist recovers from surgery

Banjo wielders, Mumford & Sons have cancelled their upcoming performances at the Bonnaroo and Telluride festivals following bassist Ted Dwane’s recent operation to remove a blot clot from his brain.

Dwane was hospitalised on the 10 of June, and in the early hours of Friday morning the band put out a message on their Facebook page saying that he had been released and was “on the road to a full recovery”. Citing the “medical advice” that they had received in the wake of Dwane’s treatment, the pop-folk four piece announced the cancellation of their upcoming U.S. tour dates, which included headline spots this month at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee, and the Telluride Bluegrass festival in Colorado. They’ll be replaced at Bonnaroo by Jack Johnson.

BBC’s Newsbeat reports that no information has yet been offered about the band’s scheduled Sunday night festival-closing headline slot at Glastonbury.

Read Mumford & Sons’ statement in full below:

Dear friends,

It is with great joy that we can announce that Ted has been discharged from hospital and is on the road to a full recovery. The surgery went well, and the excellent medical team helping him are very pleased with his progress. He has been nothing short of heroic in how he has handled the whole ordeal, and now it has been medically proved that he does indeed have a brain.

Today, however, also marks the end of our Summer Stampede Tour. We were hoping to have made it out by Bonnaroo this weekend. But it is with sadness that we have to announce the cancellation of our scheduled performances at both Bonnaroo and Telluride Festivals, and our show at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS. If we could’ve we would’ve, you know that about us. We trust that you can respect our collective desire to encourage Ted to make a full recovery, and that this is based purely on the medical advice we have received.

On behalf of Ted, and all of us really, we would like to thank every one for their compassion and support at this time and we are very excited to get back out on tour as soon as we can.

Ted, Ben, Marcus and Win

[via CoS]