Socially distant concerts signal a reopening for live music
By Kristin M. Hall
Associated Press
From left are Jon Jones, Mike Eli, Chris Thompson and James Young of the Eli Young Band. Jones hopes to hit the stage again in June to launch a new drive-in concert series in his first return to live music with fans present since the devastating coronavirus. (Wade Payne/Invision/AP)
The last time that bassist Jon Jones played a concert with his country group Eli Young Band was March 8. He hopes to hit the stage again in June to launch a new drive-in concert series in his first return to live music with fans since the devastating coronavirus.
“This is going to be a surreal kind of setting,” Jones said of plans to play acoustically to 400 cars full of people at the new Texas Rangers stadium in Arlington, Texas.
As states start to let businesses reopen under limitations, music industry organizers are testing out new models of smaller, socially distant concerts. Jones is cautiously optimistic that drive-in concerts might help crack open a door for musicians that slammed shut so quickly in March.
“We’re going to be one of those last industries, those last segments that opens up, unfortunately,” Jones said. “I do hope that everybody is cautious and opens up appropriately and slowly.”
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