Coronavirus: Green light for the Parisian test concert (Illustration) – AFP
The authorities have given the green light to the Parisian test concert in Bercy, which could take place on May 29, the Prodiss (Syndicate of musical and variety spectacle) said on Tuesday.
The “Ambition Live Again” experimental project (name of the Parisian experiment), carried by the Prodiss for several months, is now authorized, as the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced to the members of the National Council of the entertainment professions (CNPS) ”meeting on Tuesday, indicates the union.
A concert in front of 5,000 people
“This is a project bearing hope for a sector which needs it and which has been at a standstill for 14 months now (…) It is today that the recovery of September is being prepared”, writes again the Prodiss in a press release.
The Parisian test concert in Bercy “should be held on May 29”, with a group of 5,000 people attending and 2,500 people staying at their homes, recently explained the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), in charge. of the scientific component.
This concert “will take place in a standing configuration in a closed room”, further specified the AP-HP in a press release. The Indochine group said it was ready to participate. “We want to do it, to help the whole profession, to demonstrate, as in Barcelona, Amsterdam, that going to a concert (with masks) is not risky”, recently exposed the leader of the group Nicola Sirkis at the ‘AFP. “We are going to play on a voluntary basis, and we will even invest to present a real concert,” he said Sunday evening to the 8 pm newscast on France 2.