COVID-friendly concerts: German music festival tries out new concept
Organizers of the Rheingau Music Festival, slated to start in late June, have come up with new ideas to hold concerts keeping COVID-19 restrictions in mind.
Cellist Pablo Ferrandez has been a regular at the festival
For a year now, the Rheingau Music Festival organizers have been preparing for the 2021 season — and not just musically. Exactly one year ago, the festival had to be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canceling for the second year running was out of the question, and so the organizers immediately began to work out how a festival could go ahead despite the pandemic.