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It remains to be seen if indoor and outdoor concerts in San Diego and throughout California will be able to resume without any restrictions on June 15, contingent on the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations at the time and the amount of available vaccines.
Nevertheless, several San Diego concert presenters announced Monday that they are gearing up for renewed activity.
Humphreys Concerts by the Bay confirmed its first booking of 2021 a pair of Aug. 17 and 18 standing-room-only shows by the Philadelphia folk-rock band Mt. Joy and the bluegrass-fueled Minnesota group Trampled By Turtles. Tickets go on sale this week for the concerts at the 1,450-capacity Shelter Island venue, whose 40th anniversary last year was pushed back to 2021 because of the pandemic.
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It remains to be seen whether indoor and outdoor concerts in San Diego and throughout California will be able to resume without restrictions June 15, contingent on the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations at the time and the amount of available vaccines.
Nevertheless, on Friday, April 16, the La Jolla Music Society’s Baker-Baum Concert Hall will host San Diego County’s first ticketed indoor concert with a live audience since the pandemic shuttered live events in March 2020.
Camarada’s previously announced audience-free April 24 livestreamed tribute concert “In the Key of Life The Music of Stevie Wonder” has been moved to 7 p.m. Friday and will be open to a limited number of ticket holders to attend in person.
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Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March 11 and beyond on the centennial of his birth.
A legend during and beyond his lifetime, Piazzolla died in 1992 at the age of 71. His daring, genre-blurring music is still played around the word the coronavirus pandemic not withstanding by symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles and jazz groups. It can also be heard on his many albums, including a live recording with jazz vibraphone great Gary Burton, and in the music for such films as “12 Monkeys,” “Frantic” and “Infierno Tan Temido.”