VIDEO: Toots Hit By Bottle On Stage In US While Performing At Dominion Riverrock Festival
Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert, who performs as Toots and the Maytals, was hit in the head by a bottle and cut while performing in Richmond, Virginia, USA, on Saturday night.
Reports from the US are that the 19-year-old man who threw the bottle was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Hibbert was treated at the VCU Medical Centre for the cut and released.
Toots and the Maytals was performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival. The band stopped playing after he was hit, and it was reported that Hibbert was disappointed that the concert was interrupted.
However, the music continued last night as Andrea Davis, who is part of Toots and the Maytals' management team, said yesterday that Hibbert was in New York for the start of his acoustic tour at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Centre. That stint continues until Sunday, June 2.
Davis said the incident occured during the second of two full band concerts preceding the acoustic tour. The first took place in New Orleans on Friday.
"He was playing Country Road. Apparently, there was a young drunk man. I don't know how he got the bottle into the venue as they do not serve them there. He (Hibbert) got some stitches at the hospital and was released," Davis said.
A YouTube clip, recorded from in the audience, shows Hibbert scatting at 4:27 into the recordig when the bottle - which seems to be quart-sized - arcs from deep in the audience and hits Hibbert in the head. As he stops singing and crouches on the stage, holding his head in pain, a band member picks up the bottle and holds it out, looking at the crowd. The band quickly wraps up the song and members of the audience, apparently unaware of the seriousness of the incident, applaud. The band members quickly leave the stage.
Although on occasion the Jamaican stage can be a notoriously hostile place for performers, this is an unprecedented experience for Hibbert. "This is the first ever. We have never had an incident like this. We have been travelling around the world for over 40 years and this has never happened," Davis said.
"It is a most unfortunate and unprecedented incident for an artiste of this stature."
Reports from the US are that the 19-year-old man who threw the bottle was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Hibbert was treated at the VCU Medical Centre for the cut and released.
Toots and the Maytals was performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival. The band stopped playing after he was hit, and it was reported that Hibbert was disappointed that the concert was interrupted.
However, the music continued last night as Andrea Davis, who is part of Toots and the Maytals' management team, said yesterday that Hibbert was in New York for the start of his acoustic tour at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Centre. That stint continues until Sunday, June 2.
Davis said the incident occured during the second of two full band concerts preceding the acoustic tour. The first took place in New Orleans on Friday.
"He was playing Country Road. Apparently, there was a young drunk man. I don't know how he got the bottle into the venue as they do not serve them there. He (Hibbert) got some stitches at the hospital and was released," Davis said.
A YouTube clip, recorded from in the audience, shows Hibbert scatting at 4:27 into the recordig when the bottle - which seems to be quart-sized - arcs from deep in the audience and hits Hibbert in the head. As he stops singing and crouches on the stage, holding his head in pain, a band member picks up the bottle and holds it out, looking at the crowd. The band quickly wraps up the song and members of the audience, apparently unaware of the seriousness of the incident, applaud. The band members quickly leave the stage.
Although on occasion the Jamaican stage can be a notoriously hostile place for performers, this is an unprecedented experience for Hibbert. "This is the first ever. We have never had an incident like this. We have been travelling around the world for over 40 years and this has never happened," Davis said.
"It is a most unfortunate and unprecedented incident for an artiste of this stature."
