Country Star Alan Jackson Prepares to Close Out His Farewell Tour in May

The singer and songwriter, 66, is battling a degenerative nerve disease. ‘It’s getting more and more obvious and I know I’m stumbling around on stage,’ he said.

Alan Jackson at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville in 2021. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images

Thirty-five years after releasing his debut album, award-winning country singer Alan Jackson is set to hang up his cowboy hat in May as he closes out the last string of concerts on his farewell tour.

On Friday, Jackson, 66, will perform in Orlando before heading to Georgetown, Texas, in early April to headline the Two Step Inn festival featuring Ernest, Flatland Cavalry, and Miranda Lambert, among others.