Post Malone got a few songs in before the sky opened.
The rapper's Saturday night show at Commonwealth Stadium, the second of two Edmonton dates on his Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll, was cut short and then cancelled when a severe thunderstorm rolled over the open-air venue. Thousands of fans left their seats and packed into the concourse to shelter from wind, driving rain and hail. Fans who were there say Post Malone managed three or four songs before announcing they had to take cover.
The show had already been paused once for lightning. Then the storm hit in full, and video from inside the stadium shows rain sweeping sideways across the seating bowl, floor seats scattered and tangled, and crowds pressed shoulder to shoulder under the stands. Organizers announced the show was cancelled, telling fans the stage had been damaged.
"Felt like a tornado went through"
The storm didn't build slowly. Fans described the shift from concert to evacuation as sudden and chaotic.
One attendee said it turned from a breeze to sideways rain in about five minutes. Video captured the moment the wind picked up and the rain blew into the seats. Fans described being funneled into a packed concourse and waiting out tense minutes in crowds that pressed tighter as more people pushed in behind them. Some accounts describe the shelter area holding up fine once everyone accepted they were soaked, with a "Let's go Oilers" chant breaking out at one point. Others describe it getting genuinely dangerous, panic, a few fights, and a crowd surge near closed gates before they opened and the pressure eased. One fan said they came out of a bathroom into the crush and cracked a rib. Another described mid-calf flooding in the parking lot on the way out.
The common thread across the accounts is how fast it escalated, faster than a lot of people expected from a summer evening show.
The storm that shut it down
The system that hit Commonwealth was the same one Environment Canada had been tracking west of the city all evening.
Around 7 p.m., a tornado warning was issued for areas west of Edmonton near Peers and Niton Junction in Yellowhead County, and an emergency alert warned of very large hail, bigger than a baseball. The storm tracked east at about 45 km/h, stretching from Barrhead in the north to Leduc in the south, and reached Edmonton in the evening. Environment Canada's Blatchford station recorded 29.9 millimetres of rain between 9 and 11 p.m.
The Edmonton Police Service reported an exceptionally high volume of 911 calls during the storm and warned response times could be affected. Across the city, the rain flooded streets and intersections and forced multiple road closures.
A cursed summer for Edmonton's outdoor events
If it feels like this keeps happening, it's because it does.
Post Malone's washout is just the latest outdoor event Edmonton's weather has wrecked this summer. K-Days moved crowds indoors to the Expo Centre the same night. The Edmonton Comedy Festival got rained out the week before. Fans in the concert threads kept trading notes on which events they'd personally been stormed out of, and the list ran long.
The backdrop is a historic stretch of wet weather. Edmonton just recorded its wettest June ever, 262 millimetres of rain that broke a mark standing since 1914, and the storms carried into July. For a city that crams its whole event calendar into a short summer, a season of severe weather landing on exactly the wrong nights has become a running, rain-soaked joke, and a real problem for anyone selling outdoor tickets. Our coverage of the record-breaking June is here: https://www.culturealberta.com/articles/edmonton-is-about-to-break-a-112-year-rainfall-record-as-another-major-storm-brings-flooding-this-we
The storm didn't stop at the stadium
For anyone outside Edmonton wondering why a cancelled concert is news, the same storm hit the whole region, and it hit hard.
Environment Canada tracked the system from Barrhead to Leduc, with the earlier tornado warning west of the city near Peers and Niton Junction. To the west, it was dropping the baseball-sized hail behind the emergency alert that buzzed phones across central Alberta. In St. Albert, fans reported a transformer blowing and power going out. The storm flooded streets and cut power well beyond the stadium. The concert is the headline because thousands of people were in one place when it hit, but the storm was a regional event, and anyone in the Edmonton area Saturday night was in it.
What it means for Post Malone and the tour
Edmonton was a two-night stop on the Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2, the sequel to Post Malone and Jelly Roll's 2025 run, and the tour rolls on. The pair have been playing stadiums across North America all summer, with the tour set to wrap in Austin in October.
Post Malone, by fan accounts, wanted to keep going. Fans say he told the crowd he'd be back once the weather passed, before the call came that the storm had damaged the stage and the night was done. Outdoor stadium tours live and die by the forecast, and Saturday in Edmonton was the forecast winning.
Whether the cancelled date gets made up is the open question for ticketholders. Nothing has been announced, and with the schedule already booked through the fall, a rescheduled Edmonton show would be a tall order.
Will fans get refunds?
Fans reported receiving automatic refund emails within minutes of the cancellation, with the money going back to the card used to buy the tickets. Anyone who was at Saturday's show should watch their inbox and card statement rather than needing to request one.
The Friday night show, the first of the two Edmonton dates, went ahead without issue under clear skies. It was Saturday's crowd that got the storm, three or four songs, a soaked stadium, and a story.
Sources:
City of Edmonton, Post Malone Stadium Tour event information: https://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_events/commonwealth_stadium/post-malone-stadium-tour
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Edmonton storm rainfall totals and warnings, July 25, 2026: https://weather.gc.ca
Edmonton Police Service, statement on 911 call volume, July 25, 2026
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