The adage that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger applies to Heart these days — and certainly when sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson and the current incarnation of their band performed Wednesday night, June 4, at Detroit’s Fox Theatre.
Shortly after Heart performed at Little Caesars Arena last May, the group’s Royal Flush Tour was interrupted when Ann Wilson underwent cancer treatments. Then, while rehearsing for the tour’s resumption earlier this year, she slipped and fell, breaking her elbow.
She began the latest trek performing in a specialized wheelchair but on Wednesday had graduated to perching on a tall chair and being helped on and off stage by bassist Tony Lucido.
And at this leg’s opening date on May 31 in Atlantic City, some of the band members’ instruments were stolen — inc