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‘Vax Live’ Concert Raises $302 Million, Exceeds Vaccine Goal
Selena Gomez hosted the show, which was attended by several thousand fully-vaccinated concertgoers who cheered on performances by Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, J Balvin, H.E.R. and Lopez, who enjoyed a duet with her mom. Ben Affleck, Chrissy Teigen, Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Penn and David Letterman served as special guest speakers. Vax Live was one of the largest concert gatherings in Southern California since the coronavirus pandemic roiled the world more than a year ago. Organizers called the event the country’s first large-scale music event for a COVID 19-compliant audience. Media and production staff needed to show a negative COVID-19 test before entering the stadium. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with ...
Insomniac Ruling Upheld Despite Appeal That Judge Was Heavily Medicated
The dispute is linked to a disagreement over the future of the How Sweet It Is music festival, which ran from 1999 to 2001. Rotella helped revive and finance the festival in 2005 but had a falling out with Alper and Ballou over the future of the event in 2010. Alper and Ballou claimed Rotella created a competing event called Beyond Wonderland, which still operates today, and that they were owed a piece of the festival. The legal fight went to arbitration, where the case was heard by Schiavelli, who eventually ruled against Alper and Ballou, saying the men bore most of the responsibility for the collapse of their relationship with Rotella and Insomniac due to their “cavalier and essentially non-negotiable attitude.” Schiavelli also noted that the lawsuit wasn’t filed against Insom...
Aaron Neville Announces He’s Retiring From Touring
“The time has come for me to stop ripping and running on the road,” Neville wrote. “I waited for someone to invent a way to beam me from show to show but no such luck. … Unfortunately, the grueling nature of travel and the schedule needed to make a tour work has become less than desirable. The current climate of our world brought me many realizations. Life is short and I’d like to spend my remaining time on this earth being less hurried.” Still, Neville said his love for singing has not waned. “It provides so much joy for me, at least as much as for those listening, if not more,” he said. “Don’t see this as a permanent goodbye, by the grace of God, I will keep making more music and may show up at a special event or concert down the road,” he promises. Neville hasn’t performed live si...
NYC Is Reopening, But Concerts Are Still Restricted
In New York and New Jersey, capacity limits for most businesses will be replaced with a new distance-based maximum capacity. Retail, food services, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services will be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required social distance of six feet. The entertainment industry, however, will still be limited. As of May 10 in New York, the outdoor social gathering limit will increase from 200 to 500 people. Beginning May 19, the indoor social gathering limit will increase from 100 to 250 people. Music venues can exceed the social gathering limits of 500 people outdoors or 250 people indoors if all att...
Over 7,750 Live Music Businesses Have Applied for Shuttered Venue Grants
Over 7,750 independent venues and talent organizations have successfully submitted applications for Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, according to the Small Business Administration. After one week of the grant’s application opening, 4,227 venues and promoters have applied for funding, as well as 1,135 talent representatives and 2,389 live performing arts organizations. The SBA stated they begin reviewing applications upon receipt and that those who qualify as SVOG Priority One applicants — entities that lost 90% or more of their income in 2020 — “will receive notice of awards this month and disbursement by the end of May if they respond in a timely manner to the notice of award.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking f...
After IPO, Endeavor President Plans ‘Thoughtful’ Acquisitions, ‘Long-Term’ China Bet
Shapiro spoke to THR from the New York Stock Exchange, where just a few hours earlier he rang the opening bell alongside Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, executive chairman Patrick Whitesell, UFC chief Dana White and other top Endeavor executives. Shares in the company initially popped by about 10% over the $24 per share IPO price, before settling just above its IPO price. The company has grown over time in large part from acquisitions, spanning sports, entertainment, marketing and events. Shapiro says that will continue now that it is publicly traded. “We are going to continue to be thoughtful but also aggressive when we see acquisition opportunities that enable our growth to accelerate,” Shapiro says, noting that the company has made 20 acquisitions over the past 5 years. “In any respective are...
AGI’s Jarred Arfa Promoted to Chief Operating Officer
Jarred Arfa has been named chief operating officer of Artist Group International. Arfa, whose previous title was general manager/evp, will oversee all aspects of the business, including legal, finance, corporate reporting, business development, human resources, artists tour contracts, VIP ticketing deals, sponsorship and more. AGI is led by chairman Dennis Arfa and is a leading live entertainment agency that books an expansive roster of musicians worldwide. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue...
Eric Prydz’s Move to CAA Will Help ‘Bring His Artistic Vision’ to Wider U.S. Audience
Electronic titan Eric Prydz has signed with CAA and will be represented by music agent Alex Becket, whose roster also includes Rüfüs Du Sol, Lee Burridge, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Bedouin, Monolink and more. Prydz was previously repped by Paul Morris at Paradigm, although Morris left the agency in March to work exclusively with Tiësto. Prydz will continue to be managed by Michael “Mick” Sershall of London’s Sershall Management. CAA’s Darryl Eaton, Hunter Williams and Mac Clark were also key in securing the signing and will work alongside Becket on Prydz projects. Prydz’s team also includes global press by Infamous PR. “It did happen very quickly, but also at the same time very organically,” Becket says of Prydz joining the CAA roster, “from o...
2021 Helpmann Awards Canceled Due to Pandemic
LPA chief executive Evelyn Richardson says it’s simply “not feasible to proceed” with presenting the 2021 edition, after the industry’s nightmarish experience over the past 12 months, “Our industry is only now getting back to work and there is still more to be done to ensure we can fully operate in every state and territory at 100 percent capacity in all indoor and outdoor venues,” she continues. “For our live music sector in particular, some significant challenges remain before it can fully reactivate.” Richardson says the organization will use this gap-year to “take a step back and reimagine the Helpmann Awards for 2022 onwards.” The Helpmann Awards were established by LPA in 2001, and in 2018 expanded its program into a two-evening s...
Rina Sawayama Is Hitting the Road in 2022: See the New Tour Dates
The changes in dates for the singer’s North American tour also come with a few upgrades — as she told her fans in a note posted to her Twitter, her planned shows for Portland (Roseland Theater), Seattle (The Crocodile), Denver (Globe Theater), Minneapolis (First Ave), Chicago (Metro) and Philadelphia (Theatre of Living Arts) have all been “upgraded to bigger venues” from her previously announced tour dates. Check out the full list of 2022 North American tour dates for Rina Sawayama’s upcoming tours below, and click here to get your tickets. April 11 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music HallApril 12 — San Francisco, CA — Great American Music HallApril 19 — Seattle, WA — CrocodileApril 20 — Portland, OR – RoselandApril 27 — Denver, CO — GothicApril 29 ...
UK Primed to Resume Live Shows While Rest of Europe Struggles
While the United Kingdom appears poised to resume full-capacity outdoor shows this summer, many other European markets will be forced to wait until at least the fall. Greek doesn’t expect indoor shows to resume in continental Europe before the end of the year, but he does expect them in the United Kingdom by September. And with most U.S. artists choosing not to tour Europe due to a paucity of tour dates and the possibility of new virus restrictions, local U.K. and European acts will take center stage as headliners. Dieter Semmelman, CEO of Berlin-based Semmel Concerts, sees “no chance” of a return to live music events in Germany this summer and, instead, is focused on saving about 300 concerts scheduled for October through December. “It’s not a good feeling” that other markets are ahead of...
Red Rocks Amphitheatre Resumes Concerts With High Hopes, Smaller Crowds
The last major concert in the Denver area before the pandemic shut down the live industry was Post Malone at the Pepsi Center on March 12, 2020. Red Rocks was no different — although it reopened briefly in September for shows by Denver heroes Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and a capacity crowd of just 175 — but now that vaccinations against COVID-19 are widely available and an increasing amount of research indicates that outdoor gatherings are relatively low risk when masking and social distancing are employed, local public-health officials signed off on reduced-capacity Red Rocks shows. “All of those things taken into account, we feel comfortable letting this move forward,” says Bob McDonald, director of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environ...
