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Gordon Lightfoot Postpones Shows After Fracturing Wrist

lightfoot-1.15813350 INDIO, CA - APRIL 29: Gordon Lightfoot performs onstage during 2018 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 29, 2018 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach) (Gordon Lightfoot, pictured in 2018. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

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Gordon Lightfoot has postponed a string of concerts so he can recover from an injury he sustained in a fall at home last week.

The 82-year-old singer-songwriter underwent emergency surgery at Toronto’s Sunnybook Hospital after he fractured a wrist.

Lightfoot’s rep Victoria Lord told The Canadian Press he is “doing just fine” but will need about eight weeks to fully recover.

Shows in Pennsylvania and Maryland last week were postponed and Lightfoot has pushed six remaining U.S. dates this month to 2022. An Aug. 20 show at Ontario’s Casino Rama is also postponed.

Lightfoot has nine U.S. shows and one in Fredericton scheduled in September.