Victoria Monét Tour Cancels Raleigh and New Orleans

What went wrong with the dates

The Victoria Monét tour was supposed to kick off next week in grand style, but the Frequency of Love run just hit its first speed bump before a single ticket was scanned. Monét told fans on X that her Raleigh and New Orleans dates will no longer happen for now, according to Miixtape Chick.

Her statement blamed unforeseen production challenges at two outdoor venues, plus the size of the New Orleans room. She apologized to fans who had already made travel plans. No replacement dates have been announced yet, so anyone holding those tickets is in limbo.

The Charlotte show survives, but with a twist: Monét is moving it to an indoor venue that can handle the production. She said the show needs more than the original amphitheatre could give, which tells you how big she is thinking.

If you are a fan in either city, the move is simple: watch her official channels for rescheduled dates and hold off on non-refundable travel. Refund details usually come from the ticket seller, so check your email for any notice. Production-heavy shows are exactly where outdoor venues get tricky, because staging, lighting and sound rigs need to fit the space and the weather.

How big the run was supposed to be

Why this matters: those two cancelled nights were the opening stretch. According to Wikipedia's tour page, the run was announced on September tenth, covers twenty-seven shows, and was meant to open on October twenty-seventh in Raleigh before finishing on December seventeenth at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Live Nation is running it.

The remaining schedule still hits a long list of major markets, including Atlanta's Fox Theatre in early November, a Toronto date at Coca-Cola Coliseum on November twenty-first, and a stop at Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden on November twenty-fourth. It then swings west through Austin, Phoenix, Inglewood, Las Vegas and Vancouver before the California finish. Canadian fans can find more in our music coverage.

Monét is no stranger to big rooms. She has been opening for Bruno Mars on his tour, and Mars also appears on the new album. That crossover audience is part of why a headline run this size makes sense, and why a venue swap is a bigger deal than it sounds. A headline slot in New York at a Madison Square Garden venue is a career milestone for any R&B artist.

The album fueling the hype

The album behind it is the real story for a lot of fans. Frequency of Love, her second studio album, dropped on October second through her Lovett Music imprint with RCA. It stacks twenty-two tracks and guests including SZA, Bruno Mars, Bryson Tiller, Lucky Daye, Leon Thomas, Chlöe and her daughter Hazel.

Critics have mostly been kind. Metacritic lists a Metascore of seventy-six, which it labels generally favorable, based on five reviews. AllMusic gave it eighty and said the crowded guest list gets a little much, noting that pulling out a few songs reveals a stellar forty-minute R&B album.

The release was preceded by the singles Let Me, Reach Out and Juicy. Her last album, Jaguar II, produced the viral hit On My Mama, so expectations were sky high. Fans online keep debating whether the guest list helps or hurts the record, but nobody is denying that the project is everywhere right now.

For Gen Z listeners, the pitch is easy: it is a warm, modern R&B record about love and motherhood, and the live show is meant to be a full production. That is exactly why the venue fixes matter. She wants the stage to match the album, not a scaled-down version of it.

What to watch next

The big question is whether Raleigh and New Orleans get makeup shows or whether the Victoria Monét tour just skips them. Monét said the dates will not happen right now, which leaves the door open. Until she posts new ones, treat the rest of the calendar as on, and keep an eye on venue pages for any further changes.

Either way, the tour is still one of the biggest R&B runs of the fall. Rescheduling is annoying, but fixing production problems before opening night beats a messy show. Fans in Charlotte, Toronto and beyond should still expect a big, polished night out.