Noah Kahan celebrates furries on stage as Pittsburgh show coincides with “world’s largest furry convention”

Noah Kahan has issued a statement to furries, saying they’re welcome at his concerts.

The folk star’s ‘Great Divide’ tour stopped in Pittsburgh last night (July 4), happening to coincide with the furry convention which was also in town.

Ahead of the gig, Kahan gave a message to all furries in the city, writing on X: “Pittsburgh: if you are caught between attending the worlds largest furry convention or my show tonight then please know you are welcome to combine the two.”

Then, responding to a fan who asked what his “fursona” would be, he posted, “Squid man.”

On stage that night, Kahan told the crowd: “Furries are welcome. All the animal kingdom is welcome tonight,” adding: “I don’t see any so far but I will be looking and asking a lot of questions after the show.”

Kahan extended the joke throughout the night and at one point even borrowed a fan’s furry mask to wear. Later on, he also took a phone call from the “National Centre For Furry Awareness” at the prop payphone booth on stage

“The National Centre For Furry Awareness? Oh, they don’t have sex… not necessarily? Okay, well that’s good to know,” he said. “If there are any furries in the crowd, say, ‘Hell yeah,'” he added. Watch below.

@Noah Kahan grabbed a furry head from the crowd & put it on #noahkahan #thegreatdivide

♬ original sound – Tyra

| Noah Kahan became a furry tonight in Pittsburgh pic.twitter.com/W2g1LLtQfm

— Noah Kahan Archive (@KahanArchive) July 4, 2026

Pittsburgh we laugh we cried I became a furry I love this city so much pic.twitter.com/gPZAmlrmoi

— Noah Kahan (@NoahKahan) July 4, 2026

Pittsburgh: if you are caught between attending the worlds largest furry convention or my show tonight then please know you are welcome to combine the two

— Noah Kahan (@NoahKahan) July 3, 2026

It marks yet another memorable moment on the tour, coming shortly after Kahan recently called out fans for stealing road signs and shitting in their seats at gigs.

The tour is in celebration of his fourth studio album, ‘The Great Divide’, which came out on April 24, and has since announced a world tour to go alongside the new album. He plays around Australia and New Zealand in September and October, before heading to the UK and Ireland in November and then mainland Europe. You can find all the dates here and the remaining tickets here.

He will also embark on the North American leg this summer – find any remaining tickets here. The artist has also been lined up for Bonnaroo 2026 alongside The Strokes, Turnstile, Skrillex and more.

Kahan has spoken about the themes that define his new album. “From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.

“I want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me,” he has said.

“Instead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am.

“I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.”

Kahan also reflected on the success of his hit song ‘Stick Season’ during an interview with NME in 2023. “I never thought this was gonna happen to me,” he said at the time.

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