Concerts in a time of Corona
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♥Aug. 17th, 2020 // 08:44 pm♥
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Yesterday, we went to a gig.
The local folk organisers have been experimenting with tiny concerts (25ish audience, to keep it below the limit of 30 people) in their back garden. They’re quite fortunate that there are a lot of folk musicians living in the area, including Alan Prosser.
He was a bit nervous to start (three days’ notice, and he’d not had a gig in months), but he did a good first set.
Just as he finished the last song, the thunderstorms that we’ve had warnings of for the last week made themselves known. Cue brollies, tarps, and frantically putting bin bags over all the equipment, followed by standing around chatting and comparing rainfall radar apps.
Eventually, the tech guy shook his head and said he didn’t dare turn anything back on until it had had a few days to dry out, so we folded up our socially distanced chairs and headed for home, Mike driving the ten minute trip very carefully in the pouring rain.
It had slackened off by the time we got home, which was fortunate. Then we noticed that the ground wasn’t actually very wet, and... 0.3mm of rain when roads were flooding in the village. Hey ho.
They’re hoping to put on the second set later this week, provided the PA still works! |
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