The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards will be held in New York

The ceremony of the MTV Video Music Awards, which award the best music videos of the year, will be held on September 12 in New York, The music channel announced this Tuesday, a new sign of resumption of cultural activity in the American metropolis.

MTV did not say yet which artists will perform at the event, which will take place in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn with the public.

Last year, the channel had initially announced that the 2020 edition would take place in Brooklyn, but later he retracted and did a decentralized ceremony without an audience, with prerecorded musical performances in different locations in New York.

Launched in 1984 in New York, the MTV VMA They then alternated between this city and Los Angeles. In 2019 the ceremony took place in Newark (New Jersey) and in 2018, in New York.

In this edition, videos released between July 2020 and June 2021.

Last year, Lady Gaga topped the awards by taking home five of these statuettes of an astronaut holding a flag with the MTV logo, also known as “Man in the Moon.”

Also this Tuesday, the mythical venue Madison Square Garden announced that on June 20 it will host its first concert at full capacity since the start of the pandemic.

The Foo Fighters, ex-drummer’s group Nirvana Dave Grohl, will be the debutants of this new era, in a room that will only admit spectators vaccinated against covid-19, with the requirement of having received both doses when applicable.

“We have been waiting for this day for more than a year,” Grohl said, quoted in the statement released Tuesday. And Madison Square Garden will feel it strongly. New York, get ready for a long night screaming together for 26 years of the Foos”.

On Monday, Bruce Springsteen announced the resumption of his show “Springsteen on Broadway” at a New York theater beginning June 26, also exclusively for vaccinated spectators.