Brooks also postponed a public press conference slated for Monday in Nashville. Members of the group were particularly shaken because they recently played the last in a series of country concerts at the courtyard between the World Trade Center towers. He s here to fulfill some other obligations for Read Across America - some PSAs and things, said Brooks spokeswoman, Karen Byrd, reached on her cell phone in New York. We were on our way to the studio where he s going to do the PSAs, she said. It s chaotic, Byrd added.
Traffic s at a standstill.
I ve been able to make some calls on my cell phone. Nobody knows what s going on. Everybody s all right, she said. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers were to present him with their Golden Note Award. Byrd was uncertain about when Brooks and his party would be able to leave New York.