Live Music is Back and Breaking Records, Delta Variant Be Darned
Festivals are selling out without publishing lineups as young people rush ba ck to concerts.
Good evening from Chicago, wherever you may be. Apologies for the mid-week email. I am trying to take a few days off this week, and have had a piece on live music brewing for a few days. So you’re getting the normal edition today instead of Sunday. However, you will still get a surprise this weekend.
When my colleague Adam Jackson walked into Chicago’s Grant Park last weekend, he joined a throng of more than 100,000 revelers celebrating the return of live music. Lollapalooza, one of the largest music festivals in the world, marked the unofficial start of summer festival season with one of the largest public gatherings since the start of the pandemic.