Performing arts venues, suffering under pandemic shutdown, struggle to move forward
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
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There is a joke among concert promoters that since they have nothing to do, the government should put them in charge of distributing the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Everyone would get a wristband and head into a post-vaccination VIP meet-and-greet for a picture with Dr. Fauci,” said John Sanders of DSP Shows.
It’s a bit of dark humor. Sanders said he knows that vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the end of the COVID pandemic are the only thing that’s going to allow state and local governments to reopen venues across New York state and New England where he does business places like The Academy of Music and Pines Theater in Northampton or Springfield Symphony Hall. Otherwise, he’s left organizing a few online performances from Daryl’s House a club owned by Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates in Pawling, New York.