Zach Bryan wears 'Free Palestine' shirt at Gillette Stadium

musicOct 3, 2026242,979

Country singer Zach Bryan wore a black T-shirt reading "FREE PALESTINE" with a pine tree image and the slogan "AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" while taking the stage for a sold-out show at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Friday night. Bryan, 30, performed the first night of a two-night run on the closing leg of his With Heaven on Tour, and several of his band members also wore Palestine-branded clothing; guitarist Noah Le Gros posted a photo of himself in a Palestine soccer jersey in front of Kraft Sports and Entertainment signage. The onstage display came about one month after Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour following an anti-Israel speech at MetLife Stadium and after stadium owners, led by Kraft, had pressured the tour over political remarks. Kraft and Ed Sheeran later discussed matching donations to Palestinian relief, with Kraft saying he committed $2 million to match Sheeran’s contribution. Bryan is scheduled to return to Gillette for the second show Saturday night.

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

19776h ago

Yashar Ali 🐘486

2. He is one of the biggest live draws in music, filling stadiums across the United States and in major cities around the world. Bryan served eight years on active duty in the US Navy and served overseas in Bahrain and Djibouti.

The Potty Mouth Pundit56

That right, Mr. Kraft. You don’t shit where you live. And artists like Zach Bryan have helped make you a very wealthy man. In a world of Robert Krafts, be a Zach Bryan. #FreePalestine

carlosamammal.bsky.social53

These are the people who SHOULD be doing this. It's ok preaching to the converted. The world needs artists who take truth to the hypnotised!

dreamlyapp.bsky.social35

The detail about Kraft going after Macklemore's tour dates is what sticks with me. Makes you wonder how many artists quietly self-censor onstage just to avoid that kind of call.

jublusky.bsky.social29

So it shows that Ed Sheeran has a very tiny one, then?

Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧25

I have never heard of him. I love his music now and support him and his message. #Australia support this artist

Quoting this

Craigie 🇵🇸 🇸🇩🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British12

In yer face chicken shit Sheeran. #FreePalestine

whattheactualf.bsky.social9

More musicians need to do this! Where tf are you? Use your voices! The ones that don’t are cowards including the ones that didn’t and aren’t here anymore!

PhilMchale7

Kinda shows what a shithouse Ed Sheeran really is doesn’t it.

Josef O'Shea5

Arguably far more risk for an American country star than a cod-Irish busker

Julian Power 🖋️📖4

Bryan‘s tattoos are probably better than Sheeran‘s too…

steve jlord3

It's not just Macklemore. Zach is militantly centrist, by the way, and a former US Navy ordinance specialist. Props for his courage regardless of any other stuff.

Georgeous McGeorgeface 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸🇮🇨🇳🇴2

Has anyone checked on Pink to make sure she's doing ok?

Mahira2

Ah, vaya. Que sí que se podía apoyar a Palestina y tocar en el estadio de Robert Kraft. Qué cosas.

Mr. Sheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️2

This is pretty massive. Fwiw, he played three gigs in the Phoenix Park in 2025 and the fans seemed like a largely pleasant and younger bunch.

Lee2

Every time folks try to cancel solidarity with our fellow humans in Palestine, it goes sideways. Good.

Emily Gorcenski

@emily.gorcen.ski

Zach Bryan came out saying FREE PALESTINE in the first show at Gillette Stadium since Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft silenced Macklemore, AND he played a new, still unreleased anti-AI song and some of y’all are still sleeping on the liberatory potential of Americana

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Emily Gorcenski30

Bryan is scheduled to play again at Gillette tonight. So far no response from the Krafts and no changes to the plans for the show. Remains to be seen if he wears the shirt a second night in a row.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers13

He's also funding the Jack Kerouac museum in Lowell jackkerouac.com/blogs/news/z...

🌿🌞Sarah🌛🦋4

Look you'll never get me to listen to country but I'm proud of him

Tom Flamson3

Calling it "Americana" instead of "Woke Country" is the correct branding choice, but god I'd love to own the chuds with the latter

Mike Isaacson3

If he and Tyler Childers did a tour I would go see that prolly

lcrl1961.bsky.social3

Um, listened to any Drive By Truckers?

Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

MAGA is in meltdown. It looks like Macklemore has incited a movement. In the heart of Robert Kraft's stadium, after the Sheeran-Macklemore fallout. "Zach Bryan is making a pretty loud statement at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium ... hitting the stage in a "Free Palestine" shirt.”

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Mississippi Band9

Fuck Robert Kraft. Made your money. Just makes you financially successful. Still a prick.

Northbhoy5

You forgot to mention that Robert Kraft is in the Epstein files. And he uses prostitues. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

idk

@idkman159.swifties.social

You know how much you had to fuck up that ZACH BRYAN (yes that country singer with a ton of questionable decisions who’s been nonpolitical before) wore a Free Palestine t-shirt while performing at his show at Gillette and looks 100 times better than you? Ed is spineless man

6410h ago

Hey kids🏳️‍🌈Spelling is fun!7

I genuinely can’t keep these men straight, I thought Zach Brown was the bad one?? bsky.app/profile/spel...

kristen🪩🍜4

Yoooo he has so much more to lose for doing that. Spine is in tact bish!

Robin Byrd1

Shout out to Zach Bryan for wearing a Free Palestine shirt. He had the guts to stand up for the free speech rights of musicians unlike the disappointing Ed Sheeran.

The Potty Mouth Pundit

@pottymouthpundit.bsky.social

That right, Mr. Kraft. You don’t shit where you live. And artists like Zach Bryan have helped make you a very wealthy man. In a world of Robert Krafts, be a Zach Bryan. #FreePalestine

565h ago

Wear The Peace

@wearthepeace.bsky.social

Tonight, country star Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt while performing inside Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium, just weeks after Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour following his continued support for Palestine.

388h ago

Sarah O

@erniebufflo.bsky.social

Zach Bryan, sorry I skipped your song on a playlist today, I was not familiar with your game.

2410h ago

Jamie Dyer

@jamiedcville.bsky.social

"Free Palestine" implies "Fuck Israel". That's why Zionists and other fascists hate those two words and its why we should say them whenever possible. Free Palestine.

199h ago

Catalina Fernandes

@catalinafernandes.bsky.social

Calls of "Free Palestine" echoed through the Green Party conference in the UK as Zack Polanski pledged to reverse the ban on Palestine Action.

106h ago

Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁

@djdynamic.ca

I have no idea who Zach Bryan is but nevertheless I know this absolutely rules

158h ago

boo!po

@papagarbage.bsky.social

dude seems to get using he white country star privilege to serve the underserved huzzah, zach bryan

119h ago

rich1047

@rich1047.bsky.social

Oh, this could get interesting. Zach Bryan is playing a second show at Gillette Stadium Saturday. Good on Zach Bryan for putting that Kraft dirtbag in a no-win situation. It's good to see some solidarity among musicians. deadline.com/2026/10/zach...

910h ago

Bill Button

@haiboi.bsky.social

Last night Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his show in Gillett Stadium. Hat’s off to him! He’s doing another show there tonight. I think this is a pretty big deal. I’m impressed. This is encouraging. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

53h ago

Booort

@senatorgiggity.bsky.social

I know the name and type of music throws a lot of people but Zach Bryan, I think, is a real one

56h ago

Indigo 7A // Ash from New England // אשר

@ashertheowl.bsky.social

Leftists on reddit excited about a well known country singer wearing a Free Palestine shirt at Gillette, meanwhile, this is the country singer (tl;dr abusive to multiple women). but, you know, overlook all that. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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