2021 Concert Year in Review
Normally I'd wait until a little later in December to post my yearly concert review, but since I saw zero concerts this year and don't expect to see any, I figure there's no harm in posting it now. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. I never thought I'd see that happen. Even last year I got to 9 shows before the world shut down.
I want to be very clear that this is not my daughter's fault. Certainly, Birdie's arrival in a non-pandemic year would have caused a dramatic drop in the number of shows I saw, but there would have been at least a few times when I could go out or where we got a babysitter or something. I wouldn't have made it to many concerts, but it wouldn't have been zero.
No, this is all on the pandemic. Between many people being slow to get vaccinated, and the Delta variant being transmissible even by folks who were vaccinated, and having a baby who still can't be vaccinated, the risk/reward ratio for going to a concert was simply not acceptable, even with Cleveland venues requiring masks and testing for most shows that I heard about.
We actually have one pair of tickets in the strategic ticket reserve for 2021. M and I have tickets with our friends Carol & John (coincidentally, the last people we went to both a restaurant and a concert with) to see Elton John perform on July 30. It's at Progressive Field, aka an outdoor venue, so I'm hopeful this will actually happen.
If you somehow haven't gotten vaccinated yet, go do that. And hopefully next year this number will go up a few notches.
I want to be very clear that this is not my daughter's fault. Certainly, Birdie's arrival in a non-pandemic year would have caused a dramatic drop in the number of shows I saw, but there would have been at least a few times when I could go out or where we got a babysitter or something. I wouldn't have made it to many concerts, but it wouldn't have been zero.
No, this is all on the pandemic. Between many people being slow to get vaccinated, and the Delta variant being transmissible even by folks who were vaccinated, and having a baby who still can't be vaccinated, the risk/reward ratio for going to a concert was simply not acceptable, even with Cleveland venues requiring masks and testing for most shows that I heard about.
We actually have one pair of tickets in the strategic ticket reserve for 2021. M and I have tickets with our friends Carol & John (coincidentally, the last people we went to both a restaurant and a concert with) to see Elton John perform on July 30. It's at Progressive Field, aka an outdoor venue, so I'm hopeful this will actually happen.
If you somehow haven't gotten vaccinated yet, go do that. And hopefully next year this number will go up a few notches.