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Karen Totaro // Photo courtesy of ASM Global
ASM Global, which manages Detroit’s TCF Center, has announced Karen Totaro as general manager of the center. She will immediately assume leadership of the management, promotion, and operation of the facilities.
“I believe Karen Totaro is the best leader to continue to inspire TCF Center’s talented team in helping us sprint forward from the pandemic impact,” says Larry Alexander, board chairman of the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority in Detroit.
“TCF Center has earned a world-class reputation while making a major financial impact for our region and state. ASM Global is a critical component to the growth in our meetings and conventions, which became a driving force in tax revenues, jobs, and the improvement of the reputation of Detroit and southeast Michigan, all of which helped to secure one of the largest naming rights sponsorships anywhere in the industry.”
While Alabama’s statewide mask mandate expired on April 9, the Von Braun Center (VBC) will continue requiring facial coverings in the facility per Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle’s Face Covering Protocols for City Premises released on April 8.
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Is Huntsville’s 2021 concert outlook any better than 2020?
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Derek Trucks performs at Huntsville s Von Braun Center Mark Smith Concert Hall in 2015. (Bob Gathany/bgathan@AL.com)
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Not concerts, though. 2020 was the year that pretty much completely swallowed touring-level live-music whole.
In Huntsville, this sucked particularly hard. 2020 got off to such a promising start, with the opening of Mars Music Hall. The gleaming new Von Braun Center room filled a gaping hole in the city’s venue mix, 1,500-ish capacity, and brought in an array of solid acts from rock to country to metal to bluegrass. Artists whose tour buses had in years past simply drove past Huntsville, with no place to perform here.
Michelle Davies | The Journal Gazette
Embassy Theatre is among local venues awaiting the return of touring performers. In the meantime, it has partnered with some local organizations and artists.
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Foellinger Theatre has plans in place for this summer so it is ready to go whether or not social distanced seating is still a factor.
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The renovated Eagles Theatre in Wabash had been open only for a few weeks when the pandemic hit. Previous Next
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Venues look toward future
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
After a two-year renovation project, the 115-year-old Eagles Theatre in Wabash opened Feb. 29 with grand plans for a year of concerts, movies and other events to show off the historic space. Less than three weeks later it was shuttered as the pandemic brought arts and entertainment events to a halt across the world.