Milwaukee concerts require masks, proof of vaccination or negative COVID tests

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A few Milwaukee gigs are adding additional safety protocols with COVID-19 cases on the rise again in the United States.

Indie rock acts Japanese breakfast, Bully and Valley maker now require people to wear masks during their shows and to show proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours before a show.

This includes their upcoming concerts in Milwaukee: August 26 for Valley Maker in the back room at Café Colectivo; August 30 for Bully at the Back Room; and September 17th for Japanese breakfast at Turner Hall Ballroom.

These are the first concerts in Milwaukee to impose these requirements. The Back Room and Turner Hall are both managed by the Pabst Theater Group, which also operates the Riverside and Pabst theaters.

“As it stands, the Pabst Theater Group asks customers to adhere to all CDC mask guidelines,” a spokesperson for Pabst wrote to Journal Sentinel. “Some events, however, may have increased safety requirements for vaccinations, tests or masks depending on artist requests, local guidelines or other exceptional conditions.”

This week, Japanese Breakfast, the stage name of Michelle Zauner, wrote on social media that the new requirements for her tour are due to the increase in COVID cases caused by the delta variant, and the Revised Recommendations from the Centers for Disease and Control asking everyone, even the vaccinated, to wear masks indoors.

“We will be as transparent as possible on these shows and we will fight for it at all levels”, Zauner wrote on Facebook. “Please get vaccinated!” “

Japanese Breakfast performs at the 2019 FORM Arcosanti Music Festival near Camp Verde, Ariz. On May 10, 2019.

With increasing vaccination rates, concert halls across much of the country reopened this summer after its closure in March 2020 on the dawn of the pandemic, to mitigate the spread of COVID.

In Milwaukee, most venues followed local safety guidelines and did not require guests to wear masks or show proof of vaccination or a negative test.

Almost no one wore a mask Rauw Alejandro’s sold-out show at the Rave’s Eagles Ballroom on July 25 and most of the spectators went without masks for the Foo Fighters concert at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on July 30, the first major concert on the market since last year, with nearly 24,000 fans.

But because of the delta variant, cases are on the rise again across the country and in Wisconsin.

Seven-day moving average of cases up 64.1% from the week before – and up 480.1% from the lowest point in the pandemic of new cases in the United States on June 19, according to the CDC.

The seven-day average of cases in Wisconsin increased to the 23rd day on July 30, according to the State Department of Health Services, with hospitalizations reach their highest level since May 27.

In recent days, two clubs in Milwaukee – the cactus club and the cooperage – announced mask requirements for guests.

“Let’s come together and make the easy choice to err on the side of caution

to help stop the spread so we can continue these shows! ”the cooperage staff wrote on Facebook.

Growing cases prompted the indie-rock act Bright Eyes postpones indoor dates for current tour, while the country superstar Garth Brooks delays ticket sales for Seattle stadium show in September as his team reassess whether they should continue with their touring plans due to the increase in COVID cases.

And some concert halls across the country, including the famous First Avenue and its sister sites in Minneapolis, began requiring proof of vaccination or negative test results for all shows in recent days.

Contact Piet at (414) 223-5162 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @pietlevy or Facebook at facebook.com/PietLevyMJS.

Piet also talks about concerts, local music and more on “TAP’d In” with Evan Rytlewski. Listen to it at 8 p.m. Thursdays on WYMS-FM (88.9) or wherever you get your podcasts.


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