Yes, we miss concerts. But letâs face it, sometimes theyâre awful
By Marc Hirsh Globe correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 12:12 p.m.
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Among its iridescently numerous other faults, the past year has been a terrible one for live music. With venues shutting down in March and a few efforts at socially distanced (and often car-bound) outdoor performances failing to catch the public imagination, essentially everything that was offered to a concert-starved public was mitigated through screens: television, device, wind-. With another March on the horizon and the pandemic no better â worse, in fact â than when everything closed, we face the prospect of a full year or more where we all missed out on live music.