Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana and around 20 other acts want to pay tribute to the metropolis and its resilience during the corona pandemic at a concert in New York’s Central Park on Saturday. Under the title “We Love New York: The Homecoming Concert” (“We love New York – The concert to return home”) around 60,000 spectators are to celebrate the end of many restrictions during the pandemic in the open air.
Paul Simon, the Killers, Patti Smith, Andrea Bocelli and Wyclef Jean are also among the acts that want to perform from 5 p.m. (local time). Around 80 percent of the tickets for the concert broadcast on CNN are free, but visitors must prove they have been vaccinated.
“This homecoming concert will be the sign of our rebirth,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the end of July when the program was presented. “New York City is back, you can see it, you can feel it, and it’s time to celebrate on the ‘Great Lawn’ where so many other great things have happened,” said de Blasio of the park’s central lawn , where, for example, in 1981 Simon & Garfunkel played a concert for an estimated 500,000 people to save the city, which was badly hit by crime.
Culture in all parts of the city
The concert is the culmination of a week of “homecoming” with events in all five boroughs of Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The east coast metropolis of New York was the epicenter of the corona pandemic in the United States last spring.
The infection process is now largely under control. Even if the number of cases increases due to the spread of the delta variant, the number of people treated in hospitals and the number of fatalities remains at a low level. (apa)
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