New York City plans huge Central Park concert to celebrate post-coronavirus ‘rebirth’
- Live music event part of a week-long celebration of city – once the US epicentre of the pandemic
- New York will soon lift more Covid-19 rules once 70 per cent of residents have received at least one vaccine dose
New York is planning to host a major concert in Central Park in August as a way to celebrate the city’s “rebirth” following the Covid-19 pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.
No programme details were revealed, but De Blasio has asked veteran music producer Clive Davis – who often draws A-listers to his events – to organise the line-up.
“You can see the comeback happening,” De Blasio told a press conference on Monday, announcing a “Homecoming Week” of events to celebrate the Big Apple’s emergence from the pandemic, which hit the city especially hard in the early days.
“But we want to amplify, we want to make it bigger.”
The concert will be the culmination of an “amazing, memorable, once-in-a-lifetime week … to celebrate the rebirth of New York City,” the mayor said.
He did not offer a specific date, but The New York Times said August 21 is the tentative plan.