Zach Bryan breaks Gillette attendance record with apparent free speech challenge to Kraft
The country star broke the record in a 'Free Palestine' shirt only weeks after stadium owner Robert Kraft refused to platform Macklemore for his pro-Palestine stance
News By Ciaran Donnelly | 5 October 2026
Zach Bryan has broken the attendance record for any event type at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, performing to over 73,000 fans twice in two days in a ‘Free Palestine’ T-shirt.
As Bryan set a venue audience record of 73,538 on 2 October as part of his With Heaven On Tour, the singer’s T-shirt recalled the recent fallout involving the venue, when its owner Robert Kraft forced the removal of Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour following pro-Palestine comments made at a…
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