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For professionals across the live industry, the pandemic-spurred shutdown offered the opportunity to rethink the fundamental processes that govern touring. For Adam Hartke, co-founder of Wichita-based promoter and venue operator Hartke Presents, and several other independent promoters and venue operators, that meant reimagining the very way tours are booked and routed through the country’s secondary and tertiary markets.

The planning application for the MSG Sphere London, originally submitted in March 2019, will be heard in London on Tuesday, March 22. 

There are days, when it feels like almost every press release about a European festival is coming from Global Publicity, the company Nikki McNeill founded in 2007.  She has been instrumental in putting some of Europe’s most famous annual events on the map internationally, and the 15th anniversary of her own company was the ideal occasion to have an extensive chat about her fascinating career.

Wisin and Yandel are preparing to go their separate ways. But first the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo has a new album to release and a final tour to go along with it. Today’s announcement says “La Última Misión” world tour will mark “the last time fans can see them on stage together.” 

Remi Wolf is on the cusp of her biggest touring year yet. She plays Lollapaloozas
Brazil and Argentina at the end of March and in early April kicks off
her most significant tour yet: opening for the Grammy-winning royal that
is Lorde on her 22-date “Solar Power Tour,” which debuts at The Opry on
April 3 and includes two nights at New York’s Radio City and L.A.’s
Shrine Auditorium. And that’s just for starters. On March 1, Wolf exuberantly
announced her upcoming European tour and just as this story
was going to press she announced a fall headlining tour  entitled the “Gwingle Gwongle Tour” on her Instagram page which runs Sept. 12 to Oct. 16. The trek will take the 26-year-old phenom to the
largest rooms of her blossoming headlining career, with shows at The
Shrine, New York’s Terminal 5 and San Francisco’s Warfield Theater. 

Dolly Parton has announced she is pulling out of this year’s nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, saying she hasn’t “earned that right.”

Pearl Jam is ready to get back out on the road after having to call off their 2020 tour, and the band has announced their rescheduled North American tour dates. 

Pop phenomenon BTS wrapped up three nights of “BTS Permission to dance on Stage – Seoul” at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, March 10-13.  The three-day in-person concert was attended by a total of 45,000 people. In compliance with COVID protocols, the stadium’s capacity was limited to 15,000 per show. 

The Rolling Stones return to Europe this summer to play 14 shows in ten countries, including two nights at British Summer Time Hyde Park in London, England, and their first concert in Liverpool, England, since more than 50 years.