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Heavy snowfall and the Scotiabank Saddledome’s inability to handle the extra weight has caused country rocker Eric Church to turn down the volume on his concert March 11.

The American CMA-award winner is scaling back many of the special effects on his Holdin’ My Own Tour show and will instead do a stripped-down concert — mostly solo and mostly acoustic. There is no opening act on this tour.

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“Eric has used this rarely seen configuration only three times to date: at Colorado’s famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the grand opening of Ascend Amphitheatre in Nashville, TN, and the now famous “flu show” in Salt Lake City in 2015 on The Outsiders World Tour,” according to a release from the promoter.

Church’s publicist and the promoter AEG have declined to answer whether refunds will be offered to disappointed fans.

Calgary has had 11.3 centimetres of snow fall in March. The Saddledome’s hyperbolic paraboloid form has a specific load bearing limit and the extra weight of the snow has exceeded that, according to the promoter and Saddledome officials. The building’s rigging grid can support 36,364 kilograms applied to the centre stage — excluding the scoreboard, speakers cluster, catwalk and lighting platforms.