How Mandy Moore Played a Concert With COVID-Stricken Husband Taylor Goldsmith — Who Was Quarantined in a Dressing Room
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticWhen Mandy Moore headlined Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium Sunday night, it might have seemed to some attentive audience members as if some trickery was going on.
The singer-actress tours with her husband, Taylor Goldsmith, the frontman of the group Dawes, playing alongside her every night.
He was visibly MIA at the outset… but the rocker’s very recognizable harmony vocals and lead guitar playing were still in evidence.As the crowd soon learned, Goldsmith was not sitting the show out in favor of a backing track.
He was alone in a dressing room backstage, diagnosed with COVID, keeping his quarantined distance from one and all, and fulfilling all his duties through the 90-minute show through the miracle of some very, very, very long cords.
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