Jake Worthington announces hiatus after May 22 music pause
jake worthington said on Friday evening, May 22, that he is stepping away from music for a period to work on himself, and several June dates have dropped off his website. The move clears out a run that had included opening slots for Luke Combs and solo shows, leaving July 24 at The Great Texas Mosquito Festival as the next listed appearance.
May 22 and the family line
Worthington used a blunt note to explain why he is backing away. “I live a life as my heroes did, but that life gotten a hold of me,” he wrote to fans, before adding, “I love my family my friends and my fans too much to let it take over me.”
He tied the decision to home life as well as the road: “I need to take some time to work on myself for my wife and daughter.” He ended the message with, “I promise I will come back even better,” and “God bless country music. JW.”
June dates drop away
Worthington had been set to open for Luke Combs on May 29 and 30 in Montreal and on June 5 and 6 in Toronto. He also had a solo date scheduled for June 11 at Duling Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, then Rock The South on June 13 in Decatur, Alabama.
Those bookings mattered because the route was already mapped out beyond the first week of June. Worthington also had a June 19 appearance at Mercury Lounge in New York with Luke Combs, plus a July 12 slot at Hodag Festival in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. By the time the dates disappeared from his website, the calendar had effectively gone quiet through late July.
When I Write The Song
Worthington released the 2025 album When I Write The Song after finishing 2nd on the 6th season of The Voice, and he has built his profile as a traditional country artist from LaPorte, Texas, near Houston. That makes this pause less like a routine schedule shuffle and more like a reset from a singer whose touring and release cycle had been active enough to support both festival billing and arena-adjacent opening work.
Saving Country Music said it had reached out to his representatives to confirm any canceled dates but had not heard back. For now, the practical takeaway is simple: anyone holding a ticket for one of the missing June stops should treat the vanished listings as the only hard signal on the table, while July 24 in Clute is the next date still posted under his name.
