{"id":6836,"date":"2021-10-18T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:18:47","slug":"full-capacity-concerts-are-back-as-covid-numbers-are-rising-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2021\/10\/18\/full-capacity-concerts-are-back-as-covid-numbers-are-rising-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Capacity Concerts Are Back as Covid Numbers Are Rising Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indoor summer concerts are back. It seems like every day an artist announces a new tour. Harry Styles recently announced the continuation of the U.S. leg of his world tour, rescheduled from last year due to Covid-19. So far, he has announced only the U.S. portion of the tour though. In most of the rest of the world, full capacity concerts are not a thing again yet.<\/p>\n

Across the country, everyone from Lady Gaga to Maroon 5 to Bruno Mars is booking multi-city tours. \u00a0According to data platform PredictHQ, ticket sales are booming. The predicted revenue for June is $1.6 billion. \u00a0People are excited to attend events again, and bands are excited to perform.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Covid cases are steadily creeping back up in every state, mostly because of the Delta variant. Most states have no mask mandates in place and Covid protocols vary from venue to venue.\u00a0 During a recent White House briefing, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that this is becoming a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Las Vegas, there have been huge crowds since shows have returned and the mask mandate has dropped. Las Vegas has seen its highest rate of new Covid cases since February. The Southern Nevada Health District advised that everyone wear masks again. But it has no authority to enforce it.<\/p>\n

Phyliss Jenkins attended the first full-capacity event at the<\/p>\n

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Phyliss Jenkins attends a Bruno Mars concert.<\/p><\/div>\n

MGM Grand Garden Arena since before the lockdown. She saw two shows that weekend, Dave Chappelle and Bruno Mars. She says that at one show they did offer masks, but it was more of a swag gift. At the other, they did not. In both crowds, few people wore masks at any time. But still, she\u2019s excited. \u201cI would say personally, on a scale of 1-10, I\u2019m about a 12. Not only personally, having not been anywhere for over a year, but to be going to two concerts. That even in a normal year would be exciting. So, I\u2019m really, really, excited,\u201d she said. But she is also worried about coronavirus. \u201cI am still concerned about it\u2026throughout both of the shows and going through the casinos, because you don\u2019t have to wear masks. But I still had my mask on throughout both shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ena Williams flew in from Los Angeles to see a show. Indoor events were a regular thing for her. But after this show, she is not convinced that she\u2019s ready to attend indoor concerts more often. \u201cI\u2019m still about 50\/50. I\u2019d prefer if a concert was outdoors. That\u2019s more so what I lean towards going to. If it is indoors, I feel like I would have to find a section where I was alone or not around as many people and I would still keep my mask on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Foo Fighters played their first full show back to a packed house at Madison Square Garden several weeks ago. They\u2019ve since announced that they have to postpone their Los Angeles show because of a positive Covid case in their crew.\u00a0 It remains to be seen what effect the growing Covid cases will have on the concert industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indoor summer concerts are back. It seems like every day an artist announces a new tour. Harry Styles recently announced the continuation of the U.S. leg of his world tour, rescheduled from last year due to Covid-19. So far, he has announced only the U.S. portion of the tour though. In most of the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}