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Beach Road Weekend “350” brings three nights of live music to Martha’s Vineyard July 23 - 25. The music festival launched in 2019, but had to be postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic. Now the festival has been reimagined to celebrate the 350th Anniversary of the founding of the Town of Tisbury, with three live shows in July offering an extremely limited capacity, socially distanced box seating configuration. Members of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Tedeschi Trucks Band will perform Saturday, July 24, 2021 6:00 PM at Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven. The special early show time will allow concertgoers to return to the mainland at the end of the concert. Additional shows are in the works for that weekend. Additional bands and ticketing information will be announced at a later date.
The Martha s Vineyard Times
A concert involving Tedeschi Trucks Band has been announced as one of three concerts put on by Beach Road Weekend in July.
Beach Road Weekend is making a comeback, this time to celebrate Tisbury’s 350th anniversary, with three concerts on the weekend of July 23-25 at Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven.
The first concert features Grammy awardwinning Tedeschi Trucks Band, on July 24 at 6 pm. Tickets will go on sale to the band’s fan club tomorrow, to Beach Road Weekend list on Thursday, and to the general public on Friday.
While there are three concerts during Beach Road Weekend, only Tedeschi Trucks Band was announced on Tuesday. Additional bands and ticketing information will be announced at a later date.
By: Eric Renner Brown
Jesse Faatz
New Speedway BoogieFans enjoy the Billy Strings concert at Columbia Speedway Entertainment Center in Columbia, S.C., on April 1, 2021.
The biggest run of Billy Strings spring tour took place at a venue that s only months old, as the Columbia Speedway Entertainment Center in Columbia, S.C., hosted Strings and some 13,000 total fans over four nights, April 1-4.
The venue is operated by Cola Concerts, a new collaborative venture between Chicago-based touring entertainment company Innovation Arts and the Roberts Group, a promoter that does business in Columbia.
Prior to the pandemic, Innovation was best known as promoter for tours by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Neil deGrasse Tyson and David Sedaris, and for Beach Road Weekend, a music festival in Martha s Vineyard. But the company responded to COVID by launching the Yarmouth Drive-in on Cape Cod, which became an industry leader in safe, socially distan