Country singer Kacey Musgraves experienced a pyrotechnical stage fire during her concert in Boston on Friday while performing her 2018 hit song Golden Hour.
The 38-year-old artist was in the midst of her Middle of Nowhere tour at TD Garden when a small fire ignited in the rafters directly above the stage.
Orchestrated sparks filled the stage during the song, which ironically features the lyric 'you set my world on fire,' before an overhead light fixture flickered with open flames.
Video footage recorded by concertgoer Daniel Preda (@misterpreda on Instagram) showed Musgraves continuing her performance as the flames flickered overhead.
'That looks bad. Genuinely, something's on fire,' Musgraves told the audience before joking about the hazard above her. 'I have way too much hairspray to be standing under that s**t.'
The singer attempted to talk about the making of her latest album before admitting to the crowd that the blaze feet above her head was causing her anxiety.
'I only like pyro when I know what's going to happen,' Musgraves joked to the crowd while remaining a good sport about the mishap. She later asked the audience, 'Does anybody have a bedazzled fire extinguisher anywhere?'
In a comment addendum on social media, Musgraves noted that she 'had to fully disassociate to get thru this tbh.' Representatives for Musgraves did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Mail.
Background on Musgraves and Boston venue
Musgraves is an acclaimed American country singer and songwriter who rose to global prominence with her critically lauded 2018 album Golden Hour, which earned four Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. TD Garden, located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, is a major sports and entertainment arena that regularly hosts top-tier touring concert productions.
Tribute to Dolly Parton
Elsewhere in the Boston concert, Musgraves paid an emotional tribute to late country music legend Dolly Parton, following Parton's death on Tuesday at the age of 80.
To honor the Tennessee native, Musgraves performed her own track Rainbow as well as a cover of Parton's 1977 hit song Here You Come Again.
Before performing, Musgraves spoke to the crowd in a video later shared to Instagram, reflecting on Parton's lasting legacy beyond her musical achievements.
'I think the most amazing thing about all this is not anybody mentioning the Grammys [Parton won], the accolades, or any of that,' Musgraves said. 'It's what a humanitarian [Parton was].'
As fans erupted in cheers, Musgraves described Parton as 'someone always looking out for someone else, looking out for the underdog, even when it probably wasn't easy, even when it didn't benefit her career.'
'And damn, we can all learn a lot from someone like that, you know?' Musgraves added. 'It feels weird to grieve a celebrity, right? But she's woven into the fabric of who we've always been, so it just feels extra sad.'
The Mexico Honey hitmaker captioned her Instagram clip, 'Rest in rhinestones, Dolly.'
Social media tributes and mourning
Musgraves also took to Instagram Stories to share a photograph of Parton projected onto a screen inside the TD Garden venue.
'Comforted knowing her bones and soul are even more integrated into the starry fabric of the universe than they already were,' she wrote, describing Parton as 'a once-in-a-lifetime supernova of a being' before repeating, 'Rest in rhinestones, Dolly.'
The singer had previously posted several messages on X to process the loss when news of Parton's passing broke earlier in the week.
'Dolly,' she typed alongside a broken heart emoji. 'This really really hurts.'
She added in subsequent posts: 'The world feels a lot less sparkly all of a sudden,' before referencing Parton's late husband by writing, 'So glad she's finally with her Carl Dean. No one talk to me today.'
Parton, one of the most celebrated figures in American music history, earned international acclaim across six decades for iconic hits such as Jolene and 9 to 5, alongside her broad humanitarian efforts including the Imagination Library childhood literacy program.
