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Riley Green to play Memorial Day weekend in Orange Beach
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
The Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach has added a Memorial Day weekend concert by Alabama country music artist Riley Green.
Green’s appearance is set for 7 p.m. Friday, May 28, with tickets to go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, April 16. According to information provided by Birmingham-based Red Mountain Entertainment, prices will range from $25 to $100 plus fees.
Green, born and raised in Jacksonville, was honored as new male artist of the year by the Academy of Country Music in August 2020. His best-known songs include “I Wish Grandpas Never Died” and “There Was This Girl.”
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As of this weekend, there’s not a single concert listed for the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in 2021, seemingly a dark mirror to 2020, in which the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the entire season.
That will change Monday with the first announcement, a show slated for June 17, which in addition to being the first named concert, will likely remain the first to happen.
“I think we’re just starting a little bit later, but we’re going to make up for it,” said Stacy Vaughn, director of public services for the city of Tuscaloosa.
“There’s a ton of stuff on hold,” she said, waiting on, among other things:
Concerts in Mobile in 2021? ‘It can be done safely’
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Fans gather outside the Saenger Theatre as they wait to see Trombone Shorty perform in Mobile, Ala., in 2015. (Sharon Steinmann/ssteinmann@al.com)
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Another postponement. Another cancellation. Another suspension. These recent developments at three of Mobile’s biggest music venues weren’t exactly positive, but they do give some insight into the seething behind-the-scenes activity that will, eventually, bring back large-scale entertainment events.
Maybe it’s early to call it a consensus, but an expectation seems to be emerging: The good old days of going out to catch a nationally known act with an energetic full house of 1,000 to 10,000 fellow fans probably won’t return before summer. It likely will be fall before the phrase “back to normal” can be deployed without irony, and possibly spring 2022 before top-tier arena concerts are back on the menu.