Todd Snider has canceled the remainder of his first tour in three years after he was allegedly assaulted outside his hotel in Salt Lake City, UT. Snider had played just one show of his 13-date tour supporting his new album, High, Lonesome and Then Some, his first batch of new songs since 2021.

After opening the tour on October 30th outside Denver, Todd Snider and his new band—comprised of Joe Bisirri, Robbie Crowell (Sturgill Simpson), Ted Pecchio, Erica Blinn, and Brooke Gronemeyer—traveled to Salt Lake City for a show at The Commonwealth Room scheduled for November 1st. Shortly before doors to the venue were due to open, however, the venue announced that “due to injuries sustained in an incident last night,” Snider had canceled the evening’s performance.

Ticket-holders for the proceeding tour dates then began receiving cancellation notices, before Snider’s Aimless Records Inc. scrapped the rest of the tour.

“We are heartbroken to announce the cancellation of the High, Lonesome and Then Some 2025 Tour dates,” read a Monday post on Snider’s social media channels. “Ahead of Todd Snider’s show in Salt Lake City, Todd sustained severe injuries as the victim of a violent assault outside of his hotel.

“Todd will be unable to perform for an undetermined amount of time,” the post continued. “We deeply apologize for the cancellation and any inconvenience it causes. We appreciate your understanding as Todd receives needed medical treatment. We hope to have more information and new dates soon.”

Shortly after that announcement, word began circulating that Snider had been arrested in Salt Lake City for disorderly conduct at a hospital. According to a Monday evening report from the local ABC affiliate, court documents show that Snider, 59, was arrested on Sunday, November 2nd, for “disorderly conduct (an infraction), criminal trespassing after a notice against entry (Class B Misdemeanor), and threat of violence (Class B Misdemeanor).”

The report states that after he was allegedly assaulted, Snider was treated for injuries at SLC’s Holy Cross Hospital on Sunday. The hospital then discharged Snider, though the singer-songwriter did not believe he should have been released. According to the report, Snider cursed at the staff before a medical professional told him to leave and not return. He left, only to later return when he allegedly told a member of the staff he would “kick your a**.” Snider was then arrested for the charges mentioned above, booked into Salt Lake County Jail, and released early Monday morning. According to Fox 13, formal charges had not yet been filed as of Monday evening.

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As fans expressed their concerns in a private Facebook fan group, Snider’s longtime friend and the journalist in charge of his The Snider Files Substack, Daryl Sanders, chimed in with more information on the developing story.

“Todd was concussed from the brutal assault,” he wrote in since-deleted comments. “The hospital should never have released him in that condition, and they really shouldn’t have had him arrested. But hospitals try to discharge patients as fast as possible these days. In my opinion, he may have grounds for a lawsuit against them.”

A story in The Salt Lake Tribune quoted a spokesperson from the SLC Police Department who said there was no record of an assault victim by Snider’s name.

“It seems the assault may never have been reported to the police, which is hard to fathom,” Sanders wrote in response to such claims. “He was assaulted walking from his hotel to the tour bus, and apparently he was taken to the hospital when his band and crew found him. There are many unanswered questions.”

When one fan questioned whether Todd was really assaulted, Daryl responded, “Yes, he was actually assaulted. I saw him today and saw the head wound. Is that good enough for you?”

Snider’s management did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Until the start of the tour last month, Snider had not been on the road for any extended period since 2022, due to an ongoing battle with stenosis that left him unable to tour.

“My bones, they’re just awful. And they’re not going to get better,” Snider told L4LM in an interview last fall. “I’m kind of in denial about it. It’s hard for me to stand up for very long. It’s a weird disease. If you walk, it’s okay. But just standing there is really hard. … It’s been coming for a while. … It’s like this thing where the holes that your nerves go through are getting smaller, so it’s like ‘Where does it hurt?’ ‘Yep.’ Because they all [hurt], it’s like you’re one nerve and it’s pinched.

“This world’s getting on my nerve,” he chuckled.

This is a developing story.