By John Sinkevics, LocalSpins.com
It’s a long, slow road back for bars and restaurants, but there’s some light – and live music – at the end of the tunnel.
With COVID weariness setting in, hundreds of Michigan bars and restaurants enthusiastically and cautiously reopened last week with state-mandated capacity restrictions and face-mask rules in place.
While most won’t host music quite yet, several West Michigan bars and breweries are testing the waters with live performances in a bid to restore some semblance of normalcy amid a pandemic.
“It’s been too long,” said Mark McPherson, founder and head manager of Otsego’s Liquid Note Brewing, which implemented state-issued protocols for social-distancing and table assignments when it reopened last weekend with live music by Jonathan Love and Dylan Tolbert.