What you should know
- Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to host a mega concert in Central Park to celebrate the city’s triumph over the pandemic. However, on Thursday, the city announced that it will bring iconic concerts to each of the five boroughs.
- Although the artists who will participate in the additional concerts have not been revealed, the city has revealed when and where the “iconic concerts” will take place.
- The grand finale on the concert list will be a mega concert in Central Park with thousands and thousands of people in the audience. It is planned that Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen y Jennifer Hudson participate in the great musical event scheduled for August 21 in the Great Lawn section of the park.
—
NEW YORK – Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to host a mega concert in Central Park to celebrate the city’s triumph over the pandemic. However, on Thursday, the city announced that it will bring iconic concerts to each of the five boroughs.
Although the artists who will participate in the additional concerts have not been revealed, the city has revealed when and where the “iconic concerts” will take place.
- The first concert will take place in Orchard Beach on The bronx the Monday, August 16;
- A concert in Richmond County Bank Park, home of the Staten Island Yankees, will take place Tuesday, August 17;
- A concert will take place at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Thursday August 19th;
- The Friday August 20, the forest hills stadium in Queens he will have a concert.
The grand finale on the concert list will be a mega concert in Central Park with thousands and thousands of people in the audience.
It is planned that Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen y Jennifer Hudson participate in the great musical event scheduled for August 21 in the Great Lawn section of the park.
Award-winning singer-songwriter Paul Simon, who sang in the legendary folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel before an acclaimed solo career, is from Queens and is no stranger to headlining Central Park concerts – a 1981 free concert with Art Garfunkel drew to hundreds of thousands of viewers and a headlining concert in 1991 also drew an audience of hundreds of thousands, two events among the largest audiences in music history.
Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson rose to fame in the early years when she participated in the singing reality show. American Idol before winning a multitude of awards, including Grammys and an Oscar, and becoming not only a revered singer but also a respected actress.
The announcement that “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen, a native of New Jersey, will also headline New York City’s mega welcome concert comes on the heels of his hit Broadway show returned to the Big Apple for a limited series. of new actions, making it the first Broadway show to reopen since the theater industry closed due to the pandemic.
“Three incredible artists have stepped up and said they want to be part of New York City’s comeback,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. “They want to help us do this and we are very grateful for all three.”
De Blasio originally said he wants a three-hour show for 60,000 fans and eight “iconic” musicians. He also previously said that there will be vaccinated and unvaccinated sections, and perhaps best of all: most tickets will be free. However, at least 70 percent of the fines will go to people who can show they received the vaccine.
“This will be a memorable and once-in-a-lifetime week in New York City,” the mayor said.
De Blasio enlisted the help of veteran music producer Clive Davis to carry it out.
“The concert will be in August. It will celebrate New York City’s summer comeback, and it will emphasize the point that there is nothing stopping in New York. It’s going to be a great lineup,” the mayor said last month. “I know it’s going to be a great lineup because we literally tapped one of the greatest figures in the history of the music industry, [el productor] Clive Davis, Brooklyn native”.
The mega concert will be part of a week celebrating New York City’s great comeback, which will include other major events planned across all five boroughs.
The week-long celebration is the brainchild of Danny Meyer, chairman of the Board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the mayor said, adding that Meyer has proven to be “legendary for the work he has done in the industry. hotel company and a great driver for New York City. “
“When he joined our team, he said, ‘Let’s do something that really puts all the pieces together, let’s have a week back home.’ And then we said, ‘What would be the focal point?” We decided to do something classic, iconic, a Massive concert in Central Park to celebrate New York City’s rebirth. “
Although the concerts are described as a celebration of the city’s return from the pandemic, Thursday’s announcement comes amid a continued rise in the delta strain, which is raising new concerns in the US.
In New York City, the average number of mobile cases increased nearly 66% this past week compared to the average of the previous four weeks, and is increasing daily.
De Blasio has repeatedly said that he would not consider reinstating an inner mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, even as other major cities like Los Angeles do so in an effort to slow the rapid spread of the delta variant, which has been devastating neighborhoods with little vaccination and sending case averages to high levels.
For more than a month in a row, New York had reported sustained declines in new COVID infections, as well as fewer hospitalizations and deaths, but lately, new daily case counts have surpassed 1,000, a significant increase from the roughly 300 to 400. new cases to date that Governor Andrew Cuomo was reporting just a month ago.
The governor’s report on Wednesday was closer to 1,500 new cases a day than 1,000.
Hospitalization and death rates remain low, a testament, officials say, to the power of vaccination to thwart more serious outcomes, even as the daily case count rises.
– .
:strip_exif()/i/2004432800.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1)