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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.
You soon will be able to visit Elvis home without leaving your own.
Graceland on Thursday announced it will host three live virtual tours of the Elvis Presley estate, on Jan. 27, Feb. 25 and March 25.
The effort was developed as governmentally mandated and self-imposed restrictions on travel and tourist activity have greatly reduced attendance and revenue at Graceland, even as the mansion and its associated attractions have remained opened, within limits, throughout most of the coronavirus pandemic.
However, the virtual tour idea was on the Graceland drawing board even before the arrival of the novel coronavirus, reports the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network.