Music writer imLeor on the 'new normal' hanging over another summer of live music. We collected 16 of the biggest and best—though as usual, there’s little correlation between “biggest” and “best.”
Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 is currently being replaced as the country’s dominant strain by BA.4 and BA.5, and they’re all much more contagious than the strains circulating last summer. “Even though there’s this perception that COVID is over, we have more transmission now than we did during the Delta wave back in the fall,” says Katrine Wallace, epidemiologist at UIC’s School of Public Health.
Personally, I don’t care to risk infection to see Porno for Pyros from a quarter mile away on a corporate-sponsored stage in Grant Park. I’m also increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of for-profit music festivals taking over neighborhood parks—Douglass Park, for example, hosts three major festivals this summer, so that residents will lose access to that green space for about a month and a half in total. Of course, I realize not everybody looks at this the same way.
In any case, here are those 16 upcoming festivals. This roundup isn’t comprehensive, obviously, and not every mention is a recommendation. I’ve skipped two major festivals at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview (
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