- June 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
It was the metro area’s first full-capacity amphitheater concert in nearly 20 months, but truth be told it barely seemed like a day had passed.
Country hitmaker Jamey Johnson re-opened the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights Saturday night, June 27, after the pandemic pause — almost literally blowing the concert scene back into action with tornado watches in effect around town. Masks and social distancing were nonexistent amidst the crowd of about 5,000, and the most detectable nods to new post-COVID protocols were at the concession stands, where the menu options were limited and beverages were sold in closed containers rather than poured into cups.
It could have just as easily been June of 2019.
The night’s acts — Johnson, Whiskey Myers and Kasey Tyndall, plus a two-song set by Johnson’s guitarist Chris Hennessee — certainly treated it like business as usual, going about their business without acknowledging the moment it was…
