Frederick, Maryland has kept live entertainment rocking throughout the pandemic.
This weekend, the Frederick Fairgrounds hosts a drive-in concert series live on stage.
“My last [club] show was at the 9:30 Club on March 8, 2020,” All Good Presents Promoter Tim Walther told WTOP. “I’m very fortunate to have stumbled upon the Frederick Fairgrounds.”
He wasn’t planning on doing drive-in concerts, he said, and was unsure how they’d be received. “As it turns out, people feel like it’s a VIP experience,” Walther said. “You show up in your car, you have an 8-by-20-foot space to hang out with your friends.”
Aaron Kovelman and Showtime at the Drive-In Keep Shining with Chauvet Professional
USA – How long will the COVID-19 lockdown last? Like everyone, Aaron Kovelman can’t answer that one. But there’s one thing the director of design and production at Showtime Sound LLC is sure of: the company he works for will continue to bring safe, socially-distant entertainment options to people for the duration.
Showtime Sound demonstrated this commitment throughout the fall and into the holiday season by staging “Showtime At The Drive-In,” a series of concerts co-produced with AutoFlex Entertainment. Held at an improvised drive-in venue at the Frederick Fairgrounds, the series featured popular artists such as moe, Grace Potter, KIX, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Goose, Dark Star Orchestra, Mt. Joy and Blackberry Smoke.
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Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Showtime At The Drive-In
USA - Throughout the fall and into the holiday season, Showtime Sound and director of design and production Aaron Kovelman staged
Showtime At The Drive-In, a series of concerts coproduced with AutoFlex Entertainment. Held at an improvised drive-in venue at the Frederick Fairgrounds, Frederick MD, the series featured popular artists such as moe, Grace Potter, KIX, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Goose, Dark Star Orchestra, Mt. Joy and Blackberry Smoke. Holding over 300 cars spread out over a wide area, the drive-in offered an experience that’s far from the ideal concert setting, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. “All of us are determined to provide people with the best possible show, regardless of the circumstances,” said Kovelman. “With everyone so spread out at this site, we had to create visuals that were very bold and looked good from any angle.”
Living in infamy for the foreseeable future, 2020 was quite the year. And like pretty much everything, 72 Hours did not avoid its wrath.
On March 26, the weekly publication ran for the last time as a separate tabloid, getting smaller and thinner in the weeks leading up to the eventual switch to the broadsheet form readers have seen in the paper for the past nine months.
It made sense. COVID-19 put a hard and fast stop to all in-person events and a countywide shutdown that made even going to restaurants and bars completely out of the question. There was no need for a multi-page publication letting people know what was going on around town, as pretty much nothing was going on â at least not in person.