Live Nation CEO Says U.S. Music Festivals Could Reopen by ‘Mid-Summer’
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variety.comJem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K.
summer festivals that were put on sale this week — and according to comments made around the company’s grim 2020 earnings report on Thursday, it is optimistic that North America can be on a similar pace.On Monday, the British government set a timeline that states large music events in the U.K.
can resume at 100% capacity beginning on June 21 — effectively the start of the lucrative summer season. Shortly afterward, Live Nation put up 100,000 tickets for the Reading & Leeds festival, scheduled for August 27 and 29 — all of which sold out.
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