Theaters are dark, concert halls silent, and bookings for performers and stage crews canceled. The same shutdown that’s endangering small businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic is threatening small arts organizations.

Matchbox Twenty has postponed its entire 2020 summer tour

The entire tour has been moved to 2021

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It’s late spring when Traverse City, Michigan should be planning its annual cherry festival, and the sounds of young racehorses should fill the air in Saratoga Springs, New York.

As places like Saratoga Springs deplete their savings, “2021 looks even more bleak,” Madigan said.

“I don’t know when we’re ever going to get back to a situation where we see revenues like they were pre-COVID. How comfortable are people going to feel going out?” she said.

Actors’ Equity Association, which represents 51,000 theater performers and stage managers, lays out guidelines aimed to keep its members safe.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Doobie Brothers are rescheduling their 50th anniversary tour because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees announced Tuesday that the tour, which was to begin in June, will now kick off in July 2021.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—This city sells itself as “the summer place to be,” welcoming more than a million people to the thoroughbred track that operates in July and August and thousands more to an outdoor concert venue that brings fans of music from Beethoven to the Grateful Dead.

When it comes to envisioning a post-COVID bounce-back, no one on the Capital Region arts scene can predict what will happen, how it will happen, or when. But they all see the same thing.

Art.

This season, millions of individual trips were scratched and thousands of group journeys were called off, but when the Philadelphia Orchestra and its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin cancelled its annual summer jaunts to Saratoga, NY and Vail, CO, it meant revoking hundreds of train and plane tickets, specialized cargo trips for instruments—try moving a 17th century cello valued at seven figures—and thousands of hotels, rentals and restaurant reservations. 

The Backstreet Boys were slated to hit another round of tour dates supporting their 10th studio album this summer. However, as the coronavirus pandemic continues, the boyband had to postpone the trek to 2021.

September 11th – Saratoga, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Crowd-craving music fans starved for stadium and arena-size live music may need to wait until 2021 before such events return, music executives say.

Incubus’ summer North American outing with 311 and Badflowers has been officially cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Nickelback’s planned ‘All The Right Reasons Tour’ with Stone Temple Pilots, Tyler Bryant And The Shakedown and Switchfoot has been officially cancelled due to the ongoing crisis.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Steely Dan’s June 30 show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center is being rescheduled for July 1, 2021, Live Nation announced Tuesday morning.

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center has canceled its 2020 summer classical season, which was set to include performances by the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among others.

The Saratoga Springs venue made the decision to cancel the season out of health concerns because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Saratoga Performing Arts Center Center  has canceled its classical season for the first time since 1966.

The summer home of the New York City Ballet and Philadelphia Orchestra for 54 years, SPAC joins most seasonal theater and dance companies and other live-performance venues in canceling 2020 events as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Bob Dylan’s “Never Ending Tour” has apparently ended.

Citing concerns over the global coronavirus pandemic, Dylan has scrapped plans for a planned summer tour.

It will be the first year since 1988 that the rock icon has not been on the road, a span that accounts for more than 3,000 shows.

Dylan was scheduled to play the Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center on July 9.

Ed Cotugno, a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) locals #14 Albany-Schenectady and #592 Saratoga Springs, spoke via distance learning technology with students in the Capital Region BOCES Entertainment Technology program about his career, jobs in the industry, and how the industry will recover from the COVID19 pandemic shutdown.

The Black Keys and Chris Young are among the most recent bands to cancel summer shows at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center due to COVID-19.

Journey with Pretenders also recently canceled its scheduled Aug. 1 performance and Alanis Morissette postponed her July 8 performance.

A statement on Twitter read: “To all our fans: In the interest of public health and safety and after many attempts to try and reschedule these shows for a workable timeframe this year, it is with deep regret that we announce the US Bob Dylan shows originally scheduled for June/July are cancelled.”

The Black Keys announced on Tuesday (May 12) that their summer North American headlining tour has been canceled.

Aug. 16 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center