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Her Virtue
WRITTEN BY
Joscelyn Ervin
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Danah Alshagdali A new concert phenomenon started to pop up during quarantine.
There are many ways people have found to adapt to different social distance guidelines of the pandemic. One of the most odd new events that began to pop up throughout October and into the beginning of November is drive-in concerts. While there are only a handful throughout Ohio, they’ve been met with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Even though multiple concerts have been advertised to me personally since the middle of September, everyone that I’ve talked to about them have felt the same way so far - it’s probably not worth it. All of my coworkers and friends have the same thought that these drive-in concerts, or drive-in events, are not worth the ticket price. Why drive out somewhere and stay in your car when you can get almost the same experience watching something at home? It doesn’t make sense. Especially when comparing the ticket prices of these concerts to tickets for drive-in movies.
To get into a drive-in movie in Ohio, tickets average from $8 a night to up to $15 a night for about two movies. That’s ridiculously cheap if you stay for both movies. Tickets for drive-in concerts, on the other hand, cost on average about $100 to $200 per car, with varying limits of people per vehicle. This price is a bit much, considering these concerts are basically the same experience as a drive-in movie.
Even though I think these concerts aren’t worth the hype, this didn’t stop them from having their own little surge in popularity. Once everything began to shut down in the middle of March, one of the most damaged parts of the economy was the arts. This includes everything to do with theatre, music, museums, and especially concerts. Musical artists were forced to cancel or postpone their concerts and tours until next year or so. However, once some states started to gradually reopen, some smaller artists, and very few larger ones, thought it would be a good idea to try drive-in concerts. One of these larger artists that gave this a try was Keith Urban.
These concerts mostly took place throughout the end of September and October. Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, not many at all are scheduled to take place in November. In fact, I couldn’t find any local ones that will happen near Northeast Ohio.
