Since the pandemic shuttered the live music business, Philadelphia concert bookers have scheduled, unscheduled, and rescheduled shows over and over again, hoping that someday they might actually happen. Now they’re about to all happen at once. Wednesday’s news that Made in America will be back on the Parkway Labor Day weekend was the latest in an avalanche of announcements as pop music springs .
By: Eric Renner Brown
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New MorningMy Morning Jacket s Jim James performs with the band at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre in Charlotte, N.C., on July 8, 2017.
Legendary Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket announced their first proper tour in five years on Tuesday.
Kicking off on Aug. 27 at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre in Charlotte, N.C., and concluding Nov. 4-6 with a three-night stand at Chicago s Auditorium Theatre, My Morning Jacket s upcoming trek includes previously announced festival plays at Kentucky s Railbird (Aug. 28), Tennessee s Bonnaroo (Sept. 4) and Southern California s Ohana (Sept. 24).
The band will also play amphitheaters including Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., and theaters such as Seattle s Paramount, where it ll log two nights Oct. 1-2.
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DJ Tiesto performs at the main stage on the first day of the Tomorrowland music festival on July 19, 2019 in Boom, Belgium.
The government says it wants to fully reopen the country, but capacity restrictions, masks and social distancing would still be required for large events.
Tomorrowland’s mammoth two-weekend festival planned for late summer got a shot in the arm on Tuesday (May 11), as the Belgium government announced a goal to fully reopen the country by Sept. 1.
Belgium plans to ease most lockdown measures starting on June 9, provided the country’s vaccination program continues its current momentum and that the number of people in intensive care units stays under 500, government officials said.
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For a second straight summer, CMA Fest will not take place in downtown Nashville. The country music festival that began in 1972 as Fan Fair and brings thousands of fans to Music City yearly also was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns.
In a release, the Country Music Association announced it had planned the festival but decided moving forward would be too risky. The event was to have taken place June 10-13.
“While we are encouraged to see COVID-19 vaccines becoming more widely available, we still face several challenges that prevent us from bringing our fans around the world the CMA Fest experience they have come to expect.”