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By: Holly Gleason
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Church Choir Anthem: Eric Church performs during the Super Bowl LV pregame at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 7. “The science was the biggest hurdle,” says Q Prime South’s John Peets of his client Eric Church’s desire to rock arenas in 2021. “What do we do if the rules are against us? The feeling – really early, once his record was done – was, let’s start dripping songs out, keep going towards April.
“We just kept marching forward, but we had a lot of conversations, a lot of big brains from the NFL and college football, high level people with a lot of money at risk, the CDC, the buildings, the municipalities and states. It was such a moving target, everybody was guessing, informed but guessing.
Pollstar, The Voice of Live Entertainment for over 38 years, provides the most up-to-date, relevant and useful data available for the global concert industry, delivering an unmatched archive of live entertainment data, a focus on editorial excellence, and the most powerful metrics of entertainment industry success available anywhere.
By: Deborah Speer
David Vance
Dionne WarwickMother’s Day is nearly upon us and, while you should spend time with Mom, you can also spend some of the day with your Auntie.
That is, your Auntie Dionne Warwick, as the revered pop and soul chanteuse is known to her legion of fans on Twitter and far beyond. Having tested the livestreaming waters first with an online 80th birthday party in December and an Easter concert in April, Warwick will be back for a pair of Mother’s Day shows May 9 via the Mandolin streaming platform.
Warwick’s digital juggernaut is one of most remarkable examples of an artist making the absolute most of the downtime forced upon live entertainers by the COVID pandemic.
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