NYC Mayor DeBlasio’s office in collaboration with giant music mogul 89-year-old Clive Davis of Arista Records fame has been asked to organize the ‘biggest mega-show’ in New York City and recruit the biggest names this summer for the ‘Homecoming Concert’ to celebrate ending the restrictions of the pandemic which crippled businesses last year but is celebrating a grand revitalization this year.
Davis’s five-decade career highlights include working with Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, etc.
DeBlasio is planning a large-scale event that will certainly gain plenty of media coverage around the world; proving that once again New York City never sleeps and will return to its full pre-pandemic.glory. The show will be packed with 60,000 attendees and will also be televised worldwide. DeBlasio said the show is part of ‘Homecoming Week’ and is a celebration for residents and those in the region who haven’t seen New York City in a while. The cosmopolitan of the arts New York City is back this summer!
According to this article in The New York Times Davis said in an interview that he plans to recruit eight iconic artists specifically for the three-hour big comeback show on the Great Lawn of Central Park to share the billing being scheduled on August 21. Artists have yet to be announced. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that no one has ever experienced before.
“I can’t think of a better place than the Great Lawn of Central Park to be the place where you say that New York is reopening,” Mr. Davis said in an interview. He said he was greatly honored when Mayor DeBlasio asked him to help lead the efforts to produce the ‘grand-scale’ event of the summer. Davis is originally from Brooklyn.
“This concert is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Mr. DeBlasio told the New York Times. “It’s going to be an amazing lineup. The whole week is going to be like nothing you’ve ever seen before in New York City.”
A number of details have already been set. Live Nation is also involved with the production and the majority of the tickets will be free although some will be paid VIP seating.
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The Central Park Conservancy manages the park maintains a very strict and judicious policy of doling out licenses at the park. It has hosted historic concerts dating back to the 1970s and beyond. Carole King performed there to 70,000 people in 1973, Simon and Garfunkel played a reunion concert there for an audience of approximately 400,000, Elton John serenaded an audience there in 1980, Diana Ross performed there in 1983 as well as Luciano Pavarotti, and the Dave Matthews Band in 2003.
It’s time to finally ‘rock out’ this summer get ready!