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Pollstar Special Section: One Year Later…
– One Year Later …
For most of us, it’s been brutal. Exactly one year ago this week, the industry we pour our hearts, souls and minds into shuttered. Pollstar is marking this by documenting the week live music died with a package examining the events that transpired as our industry completely shut down—so many tours, festivals and venues large and small along with artists and our entire industry just stopped on a dime.
Nothing may better tell this story that was the gut punch of March than this week’s Box Office Insider, which illustrates how our industry went from grossing $153 million from 2.47 million tickets sold in the month’s first week to zero in the last. Our industry survey polls a wide swath of sectors including management, agencies, promoters, insurance, festivals, production and livestreamers on their experiences. And our One Year Later.. section includes
interviews with the Head of SXSW Music James Minor, Tacoma Dome’s Kim Bedier and NIVA’s Rev. Moose, as well as a look at the final major American festival before the shutdown, Florida’s Okeechobee, and the immediate impact COVID had on artists in cycle including D-Nice, Dropkick Murphys, Code Orange and Tame Impala.