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Tragic incident: Fan dies during Kelly Family Christmas concert

2022-12-04T17:56:48.599Z


Tragic incident: Fan dies during Kelly Family Christmas concert Created: 04/12/2022, 18:48 By: Lukas Einkammerer The Kelly Family performs in Halle with a colorful Christmas program. But after a few minutes, the show has to be interrupted. A spectator has collapsed - and dies shortly afterwards. Halle – When the Kelly Family around Patricia (53), Joey (49) and Kathy Kelly (59) took the stage o


Tragic incident: Fan dies during Kelly Family Christmas concert

Created: 04/12/2022, 18:48

By: Lukas Einkammerer

The Kelly Family performs in Halle with a colorful Christmas program.

But after a few minutes, the show has to be interrupted.

A spectator has collapsed - and dies shortly afterwards.

Halle – When the Kelly Family around Patricia (53), Joey (49) and Kathy Kelly (59) took the stage on December 2nd in the OWL Arena in Halle, neither the cheering spectators nor the six musicians could guess what would happen that evening.

It should have been hours full of joy, singing along and, above all, the Christmas spirit - after all, the Irish people wanted to ring in the festive season with singing and the sound of instruments in their "Christmas Show".

But things turned out very differently - and the concert, which the artists and guests had been waiting for so long, ended after a few minutes.

Medical emergency: The Kelly Family concert is canceled after a few minutes

The curtain falls and the six talented siblings strike up the first notes of their carefully devised stage program.

The colorful troop can't show off their talents for a particularly long time - and they don't even manage to finish the first piece.

As the

Westfalen Blatt

reports, the performance suddenly stopped after just two minutes.

"Due to a medical emergency among the audience, our concert has to be interrupted," according to the newspaper, Patricia Kelly's announcement.

The Kelly Family is currently touring across the country.

However, when they perform in Halle, a tragic incident occurs.

Because a fan dies during the concert.

© dpa/Malte Krudewig;

dpa/Rolf Vennenbernd (photomontage)

While the members of the Kelly Family put down their instruments, paramedics from the Red Cross rushed to help the person concerned, who is said to have had a place in the lower tier of the event location, and set up a screen.

As the

Westfalen Blatt

further reports, the medical staff spent 35 minutes with the patient before he was finally transported away.

Terrible moments of trepidation - for the audience, the band and especially for the man's companions.

"Never happened in 50 years of work": Spectator dies at the Kelly Family concert

According to the Westfalen Blatt

, 25 difficult minutes after the collapsed man was taken out of the hall, Patricia, Jimmy (51) and John Kelly (55)

came back onto the stage.

However, instead of continuing with the musical evening, they reveal terrible news to their fans: the fan has died.

"We pray for the man and his family," said Patricia Kelly.

It is unthinkable that the concert can go on after such a tragedy.

"Today we can't celebrate a party on stage," explains the singer and author, "In 50 years of work, something like this has never happened to us."

After the event, the Kelly Family also commented on their Instagram account and wrote: "We ask for your understanding that we canceled the concert and could not continue.

Our thoughts are with the deceased and his family.”

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Although there should not be a replacement date for the unusual show, the fans of the Kelly Family still react with understanding on social media.

"It was the right thing to do and to show that a human life is more important than a celebration," writes a viewer under a Facebook post by the organizer, "A Christmas party would have been tasteless afterwards," another does the same.

Recently, a medical emergency also occurred during a live performance by Mario Barth – in which the comedy legend is said to have criticized the paramedics.

Sources used:

westfalen-blatt.de, Instagram/thekellyfamilyofficial

Source: merkur

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