Posted on May 30, 2021 at 10:14 pm by Carol Tannenhauser
Beacon Theatre, Amsterdam Avenue, West 74th Street.
By Bobby Panza
He’s back! Upper West Side local and Phish guitarist, Trey Anastasio, is performing two solo shows at the Beacon Theatre next month, June 22 & 23. The concerts will mark the first full-capacity indoor shows in Manhattan since the pandemic began. The event is being billed as “Two Evenings With Trey Anastasio.”
It was just seven months ago, October 2020, when Anastasio performed an 8-week residency at the Beacon. In the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic Trey and his band performed with nobody in the audience, a sight rarely seen during the pandemic with gathering restrictions set tight. The shows were transmitted worldwide using the Twitch app, with the audience communicating with Trey and one another in the app’s chat component.
The shows raised over $1 million for Phish’s long-running nonprofit organization, the Waterwheel Foundation, and its new Divided Sky Fund, whose initial objective was to build a drug treatment center in Vermont. Since the shows took place, Anastasio, who is now 14 years sober, announced the purchase of a facility in Ludlow, Vermont that will be developed into a non-profit substance use disorder (SUD) treatment center.
Photograph of Trey Anastasio by Angela.
“Trey was the only artist to play live at The Beacon during the pandemic, so we’re honored that he’ll be the first artist back on our stage playing for a packed house,” said James Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of MSG Entertainment, in a statement. “There’s no question people are eager to start gathering to once again experience events they love — and are more than willing to get vaccinated to do so. We’re focused on opening up all our venues to not just usher in the return of live entertainment, but of New York.”
What’s interesting to note is that guests for these shows will need to be fully vaccinated, meaning the event must be at least 14 days after your second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or at least 14 days after your single dose of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. The only exception is for children under the age of 16, who may provide proof of a negative antigen COVID-19 test, negative PCR COVID-19 test or full vaccination and are accompanied by a vaccinated adult. For more information, please visit beacontheatre.com/faqs.
In October 2019 Trey Anastasio played a pair of solo acoustic shows at the iconic Carnegie Hall. Here’s one of my favorites from that stand.
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