Live-Event Industry Offers COVID-19 Vaccination Infrastructure, Venues and Staff in Letter to President Biden
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letter to President Biden on Tuesday, major live-entertainment organizations AEG, Bandit Lites, Broadway League, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM), Live Nation, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), the National Independent Talent Organization (NITO), the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), Oak View Group (OVG), and We Make Events formally offered their venues, staff, and expertise to the COVID-19 vaccination effort. As noted by the announcement, the live event industry is in a unique position to help: the pandemic has fully shuttered operations, leaving venues empty and the furloughed crowd-management oriented staff who operate them eager to help out and get back to work.
19 Famous and Forgotten Eddie Van Halen Concert Collaborations
Over his long career, Eddie Van Halen never hesitated jumping onstage with friends and strangers. In the below list of 19 Famous and Forgotten Eddie Van Halen Concert Collaborations, we ve rounded up some of the best.
While he s best known for his studio team-ups - work with Queen s Brian May, Roger Waters, Toto s Steve Lukather, and the hot fire he gifted Michael Jackson on “Beat It - there were plenty of times he sat in with others onstage.
From joining the Jacksons for a live take on “Beat It” to lending a hand at Sammy Hagar shows to a truly bizarre solo on Simon & Garfunkel s “The Sound of Silence,” Van Halen s best and most curious live collaborations are a thing of wonder.
Jimmie Rodgers, whose smooth voice straddled the line between pop and country and brought him a string of hits none bigger than his first record, ‘Honeycomb’, in 1957 died in Palm Desert, California. He was 87.
His daughter Michele Rodgers said that the cause was kidney disease and that he had also tested positive for COVID-19.
Rodgers was a regular presence on the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts for a decade after ‘Honeycomb’, with records that included ‘Oh-Oh, I’m Falling in Love Again’ (1958) and ‘Child of Clay’ (1967), both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards.
He might have continued that run of success but for an ugly incident in December 1967, when he was pulled over by a man who, he later said, was an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and beat him severely.
Jimmie Rodgers, who sang Honeycomb and other hits, dies at 87
Rodgers was a regular presence on the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts.
by Neil Genzlinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Jimmie Rodgers, whose smooth voice straddled the line between pop and country and brought him a string of hits none bigger than his first record, Honeycomb, in 1957 died Monday in Palm Desert, California. He was 87.
His daughter Michele Rodgers said that the cause was kidney disease and that he had also tested positive for COVID-19.
Rodgers was a regular presence on the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts for a decade after Honeycomb, with records that included Oh-Oh, Im Falling in Love Again (1958) and Child of Clay (1967), both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards.
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The reconfigured 2021 NAMM Show will go on make that, go online this week. It will do so with a temporary new name, Believe in Music, and some of the most dramatic changes in the history of the world’s biggest annual trade show for the music, sound and event technology industries.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, NAMM announced last August it was canceling its 2021 show as an in-person event and would instead pivot online. Believe in Music, which runs Monday through Friday, will serve as an interactive community center and marketplace for musical instrument and technology creators and manufacturers to connect with each other, buyers, sellers, musicians, and fans.