Converge’s Kurt Ballou Hospitalized, Latin American Tour Postponed

In major bummer news, Converge are postponing their upcoming tour due to Kurt Ballou’s health issues. He will have to wait to go out on the road until his doctors say he can travel.

They are putting their Latin American Tour on hold as Ballou deals with cellulitis in one of his feet. Unfortunately, that means he was forced to stay in the hospital for eight days. Given the fact that this bacterial skin condition was serious enough to need hospital intervention, it’s a good thing he sought out professional help, rather than sticking it out and heading out on tour. At the time of this post going live, he’s now at home resting, but has not yet cleared for travel.

Initially, the tour was supposed to happen this month. Now, it has been bumped back to November as Ballou takes the time to heal.

On social media, Ballou explains:

“Announcement: Unfortunately we need to postpone the upcoming @converge Latin American tour until the fall as I’m recovering from a random foot infection that had me hospitalized for 8 days! I’m resting at home now and doing better every day but not yet fit for travel.
“I’m very disappointed this tour is being delayed, but also super stoked that we were able to add a show in Argentina!
“South East Asia tour and everything else on the books are still going forward as planned.
Thanks everyone for your support and we’ll see you soon!

We wish Ballou a speedy recovery and hope to see them back on the road on other dates soon as well, once he is back to 100%.

Check out the updated list of tour dates below:

11/02 Mexico City, MEX @ Foro Veintiocho
11/03 San Jose, CR @ Casa Rojas
11/05 Bogota, COL @ Zona 16
11/07 Santiago, CHL @ Blondie
11/09 Abasto, ARG @ Blondie
11/10 Sao Paulo, BRA @ Cine Jola