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Live music
If you re one of those people who won t be completely over the pandemic until you re crammed into a crowd of thousands of sweaty people spilling beer over each other while some band performs onstage any band at this point! then the most realistic target to set your sights on is September. That s when America s biggest festival, Bonnaroo (a bellwether for the touring industry), has been rescheduled. Locally, that s when First Avenue staff says it s booking its biggest swath of shows, including outdoor gigs. We may see other sporadic outdoor concerts before then, including big bashes like July s Twin Cities Summer Jam or August s We Fest. Indoor gigs could also return by then with modified, vaccine-related safety protocols. But September seems like the soonest that things will get back to normal, and then we can all go crazy again.