VIENNA, Austria — A rural Cass County teenager who’s waited more than a year to see Taylor Swift in a concert overseas has had her hopes dashed, along with hundreds of thousands of others after shows there were canceled over a terror threat. Nora Severance, 17, a senior this fall at Northern Cass High School, secured tickets for her family to the Eras Tour stop in Vienna, Austria, back in June 2023. She, her mother and 19-year-old brother arrived there Tuesday night in advance of the show set for Thursday, Aug.
8, while her father stayed back to work on the farm. The family learned late Wednesday night that the Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows at Ernst Happel Stadium would not go on because of an alleged plot to carry out a suicide attack outside of the concert venue. Nora Severance woke up the next morning to a flurry of texts from her friends, wondering what was going on.
“I think it was the right call,” she said of the cancellation in a Thursday night phone call from Vienna. Nicole Severance was asked how she conversed with her children about the terror threat. “Sadly, it's something that they've grown up with their whole life, and so it's just kind of a daily thing,” she said.
There was also a feeling of resignation about the concert cancellation. “We can’t control everything,” she said. A 19-year old man from Austria was arrested over the alleged plot to strike the Swift concert and made a full confession in custody, Reuters reported.
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