Travis McCready live in Arkansas: First concert in America in two months - a great jump-start

Travis McCready performed on Monday in a former Masonic Temple in Arkansas, in a first live concert in America since the pandemic stopped live shows in March (Keith Urban played a secret gig, also in Tennessee, last Thursday, for health care workers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center). McCready's fans had to have their temperatures taken and wear masks for the show, and they were required to buy seats in clusters, or what promoters call “fan pods”. Dave Poe, a New York-based concert promoter and a co-founder of the Independent Promoter Alliance, called Monday night’s event “a great jump-start to the industry”. Daniel Neathery, 33, had to buy six tickets (at $20 a pop), an entire fan pod, even though he came alone, but - “for me, it was worth it to have some normalcy”. New York Times reports from the Temple.