The city’s music venues are finally reopening.

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With restrictions lifted, local music venues prepare to open their doors

By Brielle Entzminger

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After over a year of empty stages, music lovers finally have something to look forward to. Last month, Governor Ralph Northam lifted all social distancing and capacity restrictions, around 10 shows, according to Hutto. John Paul Jones Arena has also started announcing events, with country duo Dan & Shay on the calendar for September. (JPJ did not provide comment for this story.) An Industry Leader In Residential Roof Replacement Free Roof Inspections 40 yrs. Licensed Roofing Contractor meaning live music will soon be back at several Charlottesville venues. On June 18, the newly renamed Ting Pavilion will reopen with the return of Fridays After Five, featuring performances by Chamomile and Whiskey and Shagwüf. The free outdoor concert series will run every Friday from 5:30-8:30pm through September 17. “We’re hopeful that it’s going to be the same experience that people have always remembered,” says Kirby Hutto, general manager of the venue, which now has a five-year partnership with Ting. “It’s an Shea says there are likely “a ton” of acts who would love to perform at the Southern or the Jefferson soon, but it has been harder than expected to find performers who haven’t already booked shows at outdoor venues, under the previous coronavirus restrictions. The biggest challenge for the venues, though, has been bringing on new staff members. “Some of the folks who’ve worked with us for years and years in the past have either moved elsewhere, or taken other Prompt roof replacement OR repair and maintenance services. 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Certified Level 1 BBB “A” rated contractor. 40 years Licensed & Insured Roofing Contractor opportunity not just to hear live music, but positions,” says Hutto. also to socialize and meet your friends.” Once all three venues reopen, only unvacThe Jefferson Theater and The South- cinated people will be required to wear ern Cafe & Music Hall are also “scram- masks and social distance, in accordance bling” to open up their doors as quickly with Centers for Disease Control guidelines. as possible, says booking manager and That won’t be easy for venues to enshow promoter Danny Shea. force, however. “If we can’t verify some“We’re trying to rebuild with a new body hasn’t had a vaccine it’s hard for us ticketing system, new staff, new every- to institute anything,” says Shea. thing,” says Shea. “We had hopes of being “But I hope that anybody who comes able to open this month, but I don’t know has gotten the vaccine,” he adds. “You can’t if that’s going to happen or not.” love live music and not opt in for the vacLike venues across the country, the cine right now.” coronavirus completely “paralyzed” the Jefferson and the Southern, says Shea. With no end to the pandemic in sight, all in-person shows had to be postponed indefinitely, forcing the two theaters to lay off employees to stay afloat. “Uncertainty has been the only thing we can count on,” says Shea. The pavilion hasn’t hosted any shows since the pandemic started. Hutto considered a partial reopening with socially distanced pods this summer, but plans quickly changed when Northam lifted pandemic restrictions on May 28, two weeks earlier than anticipated. “I don’t think any of us expected [the lift],” says Shea. “It just accelerated a lot of things, and we’re working through other projects to try to get ready.” In addition to Fridays after Five, the Ting Pavilion will host the Charlottesville Opera CHRIS PECORARO Chamomile and Whiskey headlines Fridays After Five on June 18, when it returns to the Little Buckets Farm Sanctuary is a nonprofit 501c3 vegan sanctuary. Little Buckets shows the public how farm animals have loving, fun, sweet personalities, have strong family for the first time ever on June 24 and 26. newly christened Ting Pavilion. bonds and friendships, and that they feel the same emotions as your domestic pets. We show there is no difference and

“It’s an opportunity not just to hear live music, that we should love all animals by living compassionately. but also to socialize and meet your friends.”