Zach Bryan Sets Gillette Stadium Attendance Record, Wears ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt Again

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Oct 4, 2026 9:09am PT

Zach Bryan Breaks Attendance Record at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium While Wearing ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt for Second Night in a Row

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Zach Bryan broke the attendance record at Robert Kraft ’s Gillette Stadium on Saturday night, performing for 73,538 fans — the largest crowd for any event in the venue’s history — while wearing a “Free Palestine” shirt for the second night in a row.

The move was a statement on several levels, but was pointedly directed at Kraft — the billionaire, Trump-supporting owner of the Foxborough, Mass. stadium — who rallied fellow stadium owners to ban rapper Macklemore from his scheduled opening slot on the Ed Sheeran tour last month from performing at their venues, after the rapper made pro-Palestine comments onstage in New Jersey. Kraft had described Macklemore ‘s comments as “hate speech,” with questionable accuracy.

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_Originally reported by [Variety Music](https://variety.com/2026/music/news/zach-bryan-breaks-record-kraft-free-palestine-1236898609/)._