People leading Canada’s largest music festivals are facing travel delays and staff shortages due to COVID-19
Organizers at Canada’s summer music festivals say even as pandemic restrictions lift and live concerts return to some semblance of normalcy, it’s anything but normal behind the scenes.
“It’s not like a normal year. Our struggles have all been things that we’ve never dealt with before.” Despite having a contingency plan that asked musicians to arrive a day early, about seven acts wound up stuck at airports before showtime, said festival co-founder Andrea Graham. “I’ve been thinking about it with Air Canada … we’re conscious of the delays and that’s a very big issue.”At Calgary’s Sled Island festival in June, a case of COVID-19 left the bassist of Los Angeles rock trio La Luz unable to perform, so Jenni Roberts, a member of Edmonton band Faith Healer, stepped in as a substitute.
“That means those 40 people have to work harder, later and longer hours – and will they be back the next morning?” he said. Debbi Salmonsen, artistic director at the Vancouver Folk Festival, said in British Columbia several industries – music festivals, film production companies and developers of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline – are all jostling for the same equipment.
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