Call the Venue or Promoter. As soon as you know you will need to cancel the gig, call the venue and/or the promoter, contract or not. Obviously, this is important information for them to have, but this is also your chance to mitigate the fallout from the cancellation.
Instead, you change the size when you are sharing the photo. For example, if you choose to email the photo, the Mail program will ask you to choose the size of the image (I believe it is small, medium, large, original).
Note that all these size limits are based, not on the original file size, but the MIME-encoded copy. The common Base64 encoding adds about 37% to the original file size, meaning that an original 20MB file could exceed a 25MB file attachment limit. A 10MB email size limit would require that the size of the attachment files is actually limited to about 7MB.