Tag Archives: Coronavirus
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California allows live music to return, but how many venues reopen up in the air
The Chapel, closed, on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. California health officials announced on Friday that indoor concerts, as well as other events, can resume on April 15. However, many don’t see the economic viability of doing so quite…
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Insert Foot: What’s that sound? Music (but coronavirus is still goin’ round)
Insert Foot vs. music in the park. I heard something the other day so stunning that I nearly went and crashed my car. Well, maybe not that bad. It wasn’t like one of my daughters told me I’m becoming a grandpa, which would certainly run me off the road…
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Opinion: Getting the poke of ‘old normal’ in a COVID-19 vaccine
California Gov. Gavin Newsom watches as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is prepared by Director of Inpatient Pharmacy David Cheng at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Dec. 14, 2020 in Los Angeles. Photo by Jae C. Hong-Pool. California has about 3,000 designations for the COVID vaccination process. Even…
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When will concerts return to the Bay Area? Promoters speak up
The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Oracle Arena (now Oakland Arena) in Oakland on Aug. 27, 2018. When will concerts return to such a high-density attendance? Alessio Neri/STAFF. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ineffable Music booked and oversaw 1,100 concerts at the five venues it either owns or at which…
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Concert promoters nationwide offer up venues as vaccination centers
The Fillmore, closed, on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. Large and small concert promoters nationwide have offered up their empty venues and staff to serve as COVID-19 vaccination centers. A letter sent to President Joe Biden was co-signed by…
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Insert Foot: Yes, kids need sports, so let them play—the right way
Insert Foot vs. “Let Them Play.” I involuntarily cringe every time I see something on social media about the “Let Them Play” movement. It seems we’ve become big-picture immune. Perhaps not enough people know someone dead from COVID. Suffering is somehow still an abstract notion that’s someone’s else’s problem.…
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COVID relief to include $15B for music venues: The specifics
First Avenue in Minneapolis photographed on May 19, 2020. Photo: Todd Johnson. While most headlines about the newly-passed, long-awaited second round of COVID relief are focused on the $600 individual payments, it also includes help for the nation’s independent venues. According to a joint statement by Nancy Pelosi and…
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Guest Column: SF Symphony’s Barbara Bogatin on music and hope
Czech composer Hans Krása, courtesy Wikipedia Commons. The string trio we played was born of suffering, written in turbulent times. The man who wrote it had just lost his home and was forced to live in crowded, unsafe conditions while witnessing people around him become ill and die as…
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StubHub, Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation gift 4,300 recorders to SFUSD fourth graders
Children playing recorders. Photo: Getty. StubHub and Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation have gifted recorders to 4,300 San Francisco Unified School District fourth graders, spread across 72 schools in the district. The donations, part of StubHub’s commitment to putting more than $3 million in music instruments into public school music…
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SF will waive entertainment venue taxes as part of COVID-19 pandemic assistance
The Independent in San Francisco, closed, on March 16, 2020. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. About 300 San Francisco businesses that have been unable to open since March, including concert halls, will get a business fee and tax waiver from the city. “We need to do more to support those businesses that…
