War and Treaty criticized for skipping benefit, playing Zach Bryan show

When the music duo War and Treaty walked onstage Saturday (Sept. 27) to join country star Zach Bryan for a song, it was an unexpected highlight for 112,000 fans gathered inside Michigan Stadium .

But the cameo was an even bigger surprise for folks 300 miles away at Equestrian Connection, a special-needs therapy organization that had booked the War and Treaty for an Illinois benefit event that same night.

People involved with the fundraising party say the War and Treaty backed out just hours before their event, leaving the night’s 500 guests without the headliner they were promised — and for which they’d bought tickets to support the nonprofit organization.

Many attendees soon learned why: The War and Treaty had been asked that day to join Bryan at his historic Ann Arbor concert, where