{"id":49716,"date":"2026-07-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49716"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:35:05","slug":"maren-morris-to-step-away-from-touring-to-focus-on-family-and-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/maren-morris-to-step-away-from-touring-to-focus-on-family-and-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris To Step Away From Touring To Focus On Family And Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Maren Morris<\/strong>\u00a0is hitting pause on touring after her current dreamGIRL Tour wraps up in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking with\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>, Morris said she needs time to reset creatively after a decade on the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This is sort of my last tour for a bit, because I want to free think more and be in the studio more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Morris is also eager to be home when her son starts kindergarten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She recently released\u00a0<em>HERO: A Second Wind<\/em>, an expanded anniversary album featuring new tracks, including a collaboration with ex Ryan Hurd on &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Be Friends.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking further ahead, Morris expressed interest in Broadway. &#8220;I would love to do something like that, write for a musical,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maren Morris on New Tour, Motherhood, What\u2019s Next in Her Career\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sp6dbrzlCMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maren Morris\u00a0is hitting pause on touring after her current dreamGIRL Tour wraps up in August. Speaking with\u00a0Today, Morris said she needs time to reset creatively after a decade on the road. &#8220;This is sort of my last tour for a bit, because I want to free think more and be in the studio more.&#8221; Morris","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6919,7556,808,7557,116,30,188,1020,225],"class_list":["post-49716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-break","tag-dreamgirl","tag-family","tag-hero-a-second-wind","tag-maren-morris","tag-nashville","tag-ryan-hurd","tag-son","tag-tour"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 15:58:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/maren-morris-to-step-away-from-touring-to-focus-on-family-and-creativity\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49717,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49716\/revisions\/49717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}