What the hell ??? Todd Snider Tour Canceled

This just in from Utah Jen......

https://www.abc4.com/news/todd-snider-arrested-disorderly-conduct-hospital/

Singer Todd Snider arrested for disorderly conduct at hospital after reportedly being assaulted

Charges are allegations only. All arrested persons are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A singer was arrested at a SLC hospital for disorderly conduct after reportedly being a victim of assault.

Todd Snider, a musical artist, was arrested yesterday while recovering at a SLC Hospital after a supposed assault. He was on tour in Salt Lake City for his newest album “High, Lonesome and then Some”.

According to a statement from Aimless Inc on behalf of Snider, he was the victim of an assault outside his hotel. The full statement read:

We are heartbroken to announce the cancellation of the High, Lonesome and Then Some 2025 Tour dates. 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. We deeply apologize for any cancellation and any inconvenience it causes. We appreciate your understanding as Todd receives needed medical treatment. we hope to have more information on new dates soon.

Court documents indicate that Snider was arrested on November 2, 2025, for disorderly conduct (an infraction), criminal trespassing after a notice against entry (Class B Misdemeanor), and Threat of Violence (Class B Misdemeanor).

Reportedly, Snider was arrested after he was discharged and refused to leave a SLC Hospital.

The hospital had discharged Snider, but he reportedly did not believe he should have been discharged and began to curse at the staff.

Snider left after being told to by a medical professional, but then reportedly returned and began to make verbal threats to a victim, threatening to beat them up and getting into the face of the victim.

He was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on the evening of November 2, where he is awaiting charges.

Weird. Maybe I should go see him. But "no records found" on the inmate search. Must be out.

...Or a guy with spinal stenosis who is a hurtin' f'in cowboy. 

Maybe he ran into a Conservative Christian (Mormon) Right-Wing Republican Straight White American Male doctor in Salt Lake who pissed him off, but I believe he was taken to the U of U Hospital. More liberal than LDS Hospital.   

I have a friend in Delores, CO who went to a doctor in a hospital in Cortez who wouldn't treat him cause he smoked and drank. 

Wrong hospital. Holy Cross (AKA Salt Lake Regional). 

You got that right, Woz. Here's a story from the SL Tribune updated at 12:53 this afternoon. It just gets "stranger." His band "left him?" 

Utah Jen told me the other night someone on the State Room chat site said they went to the venue and parked, saw folks unloading (or could it have been loading?) gear from the bus, walked to a nearby restaurant to eat dinner, and were surprised when they came back and were told the show was canceled. 

https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2025/11/04/musician-todd-snider-cancel...

After canceling a Utah concert and spending a night in jail, a musician calls off his entire tour

A blues musician had just launched his tour when he had a bad weekend in Salt Lake City.

By  Robert Gehrke  and  Sean P. Means   Nov. 4, 2025, 6:00 a.m.   Updated: 12:53 p.m.   (This reporter Gehrke is solid. Means is an entertainment reporter.)   

Americana troubadour Todd Snider’s scheduled performance Saturday in South Salt Lake was canceled minutes before doors were scheduled to open — although the details of what happened are murky.

On Monday, an announcement posted on Snider’s social media said the musician “sustained severe injuries as the victim of a violent assault outside of his hotel.” The announcement also said Snider “will be unable to perform for an undetermined amount of time,” and the current tour has been canceled.

On Tuesday, the South Salt Lake Police Department issued a statement indicating that on Saturday at 3:40 p.m. officers were called to investigate a reported assault of a 59-year-old man at The Commonwealth Room — the venue where Snider was scheduled to perform that night.

“Limited information was obtained,” the statement said. “At this time, the exact location and details surrounding this incident are unclear.”

On Monday, a Salt Lake City Police Department spokesperson said there was no record of an assault victim by Snider’s name. On Tuesday, though, the department confirmed that officers had interacted with Snider Sunday afternoon.

Salt Lake City Police Det. Michael Ruff said Snider had flagged someone down Sunday afternoon at 245 S. State Street, near The Aster apartments, at about 3:40 p.m. and asked them to call police.

Originally Snider told the dispatcher that he had been beaten up and robbed the night before. When officers arrived “he basically told [officers] he’d been in town with his band, and the band left him,” Ruff said.

“All he could tell [officers] was he was mugged at the venue he was supposed to play at,” Ruff said.

Snider had already been treated at another hospital and had left there with staples in his head, Ruff said. Snider asked officers to take him to the hospital so he had somewhere to sleep, which officers refused, and Snider arrived at Common Spirit-Holy Family Hospital a few hours later and allegedly refused to leave.

A probable cause statement filed by police in Salt Lake City Justice Court Monday states that Snider had been discharged but didn’t want to leave and cursed and yelled at hospital staff.

A medical professional then told Snider to leave the property and not come back, the statement said. Snider left but returned, got in someone’s face and told the person he was going to “kick your ass,” according to the statement.

Snider, 59, was booked into the Salt Lake County jail Sunday evening, according to the jail roster. He was released Monday and was not required to post bail, a Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.

Snider’s tour started last Thursday in Englewood, Colorado. The South Salt Lake show was the second stop on the tour, which was set to continue for the next two weeks in Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and Montana.

“Todd has received treatment for his injuries and is expected to make a full recovery,” Snider’s publicist, Mike Krumper, said in an email to The Salt Lake Tribune. Krumper said he was unable to share any more details.

Snider is an Americana and blues musician and storyteller who has been recording for the past three decades. He is best known for songs like “Alright Guy,” “Beer Run” and “I Can’t Complain.” His most recent album, “High, Lonesome and Then Some,” was released Oct. 17.

South Salt Lake police ask anyone with information related to the alleged assault to call the department at (801) 840-4000.

LOL. Anyone who laid out $25 and bought this at the Englewood, CO show on Oct 30th has themselves a collector's item!  

Next tour is supposed to start mid-January. Be interesting to see if the make up of the band is different, if it happens. 

Best to Todd. Hope he gets what he needs. 

This was posted yesterday afternoon by the SL Tribune. Might be a paywall, I'm not sure.  https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2025/11/07/todd-snider-told-cops-hes-n...

Todd Snider told cops he’s ‘not a bad person’ while being arrested at Salt Lake City hospital

Police body camera footage shows interviews with hospital staff and the musician telling officers to “please have mercy.”

Police video capturing the arrest of singer-songwriter Todd Snider shows the disheveled and disoriented musician being handcuffed and taken to jail while telling officers he had been mugged the previous night, was sick and in pain and begging to be allowed into the hospital.

Snider’s public relations team posted on social media that the Americana musician had been violently assaulted before a show at The Commonwealth Room on Saturday night. That show, along with the rest of Snider’s tour, was canceled, his team said.

South Salt Lake City police have said they were called to a reported assault but “limited information was obtained” and the location and other details surrounding the incident were “unclear.”

Salt Lake City police, however, said that they were called Sunday afternoon to 245 S. State Street after Snider had flagged someone down and had them call officers, saying he needed a place to stay and wanted to go to the hospital.

They refused to take him to the hospital, according to a police spokesperson, and a few hours later, Snider arrived at Common Spirit-Holy Cross Hospital.

Snider was told to leave the hospital but refused, according to court records. He then allegedly yelled at staff and threatened to beat them up.

The police body camera video picks up as Snider is being escorted from the hospital, carrying his passport and other papers.

“See the staples in my head?” Snider told the officers, his speech noticeably slurred. “I got mugged. I got turned away by the hospital.”

The officer pointed out that if they put staples in his head, they didn’t turn him away. The officers handcuffed the musician and put him in the back of the police car.

“Compassion is just stupid,” Snider said.

The video then goes to a nurse who explains that Snider had been assaulted the night before and seen at two different hospitals before showing up Sunday at Holy Cross Hospital.

“He just said his whole body hurts and then he said he wanted a place to sleep overnight,” the nurse said. When he was told he couldn’t stay there, “that’s when everything escalated.”

Snider started cursing and calling people names, the nurse says on the video. A security guard said Snider was knocking on neighbors’ doors when the nurse chased him down to give him back his debit card. The security guard said that Snider said he would “kick your ass” and that “he’s richer than me and I’ll never be anything.”

When officers returned to the police car, Snider said his neck and back were in pain. The officer read him his Miranda rights, and Snider said that “I need to be in a hospital, not in jail, please. … I need a bed. I’m sick.”

“I’m not homeless,” Snider said. “I live in Nashville. I have a band. I’m famous. My band ditched me. I need my lawyer here. I’m not a bad person, I promise.”

The officer asked when Snider last slept and he said it had “been so long” because he had been in so much pain.

“I can’t go to jail,” he said. “I don’t have my medicine.”

Snider said he didn’t threaten anyone. “I promise I’m a good man,” he said.

“Sir, I am sick. Please let me go to the hospital. Please give me one more chance,” Snider pleaded. “I am begging you for mercy. … Please have mercy.”

The video then shows the officer driving Snider to the Salt Lake County jail, where he was booked Sunday night and released without bail Monday morning.

Don't think that's it, Bss.

What went on between the gig in Englewood, CO on the 30th and Saturday evening in Salt Lake on Nov 1st holds the mystery. 

The fact that the band left without him is startling. When did they leave and why? What would compel them to do that? Hello, you're working for the guy!

Was the "assault" from a band member? Or was there a scuffle and someone hit their head? Was Todd that unbearable? To bail before the second show of the tour leaving the star behind is mind-boggling.

We won't know the story until someone in the band spills the beans. As a Todd fan, all I hope for is peaceful resolutions and Todd's health getting better.   

Incredibly sad. A voice we needed is gone. Such a unique songwriter.

Who else could make a song about suicide humorous and then spin it to be staying on "the sunny side of the street?" 

The mushroom story about his H.S. football team is hilarious. "But I think we could still win state!" SO MANY GREAT SONGS. Can't even start to mention them all.

"Ballad of The Kingsmen," "Just Like Old Times" always got me with his humor hiding his deep sensitivity. 

"Conservative Christian....." I was telling Jen I was playing that on my porch the other day and for a while I've been considering changing some lyrics and making it "Conservative Mormons..." and adding lyrics about garments and $60 billion in church assets (not taxed?) and I wondered what he would say. I half-heard him say "Write your own damned song, motherfucker."  

I actually got invited on to his bus a few years ago and got him to put his bong down long enough to sign my guitar. So damned sad. Travel well, Todd. You'll be missed. But often remembered. 

Hey Alan, where did you hear about sepsis? Your mention of it is the only one I've seen.