By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Luke Combs could also be one of the beneficiant stars in nation music.
Videos shared on social media featured Combs interrupting a live performance over the weekend in Bangor, Maine, when he noticed an indication from some younger followers saying they’d stacked firewood to earn cash to purchase tickets to the present. One of many followers mentioned he was celebrating his twelfth birthday.
The singer then pulled out his pockets and handed them $140 from the stage, signed hats for them and mentioned a member of his group can be escorting them backstage to offer them T-shirts and different memorabilia.
However that wasn’t all.
Based on B98.5, a rustic music station in central Maine, Combs later refunded all of the tickets for his Saturday present in Bangor as a result of his voice was shot and did not really feel he was capable of give a full efficiency.
Combs “introduced that he was nonetheless going to carry out however, due to the situation of his voice, he didn’t really feel he might placed on an actual present,” the radio station mentioned.
“Due to that, he was going to refund the cash concertgoers had paid for tickets to the present,” based on a submit on the station’s web site. “Visibly upset with the state of affairs, he defined that he understands the price of going to a live performance goes approach past what’s paid for the tickets. For many individuals there are lodge rooms, dinners, babysitters, gasoline, and extra. Refunding the value of the tickets was, in his thoughts, the least he might do.”
Combs nonetheless carried out an abbreviated set.
The singer’s act of generosity gained him reward from followers.
“Two reveals again to again is difficult on anybody,” wrote one woman on Twitter. “And it doesn’t matter what this man’s voice is easy as butter and he gave each track I heard his all.”
CNN has reached out to a rep for Combs for remark.