Posted on 08/19/2020 11:08:55 PM PDT by raccoonradio
A new wrinkle in the state’s coronavirus guidelines for bars, restaurants and similar venues in New York state prohibits them from offering live music that customers pay for separately. It seems to have suddenly popped up in the rules this week.
It means no events where patrons buy tickets to see a performance (and) ban events with cover charges. And it prohibits venues from advertising live entertainment.
The rule, posted in Q&A format on the State Liquor Authority web site, does allow what it calls “incidental” live music at venues that have permits for that.
“This means that advertised and/or ticketed shows are not permissible,” the SLA guidelines say. “Music should be incidental to the dining experience and not the draw itself.”
Many bars, restaurants and venues that had begun scheduling such events in recent weeks were taken by surprise.
“This is devastating,” said Julie Leone, co-owner of The 443 Social Club & Lounge on Burnet Avenue in Syracuse. (It) had only reopened in the past few weeks. “This effectively shuts me down again.”
People in the entertainment industry say it’s especially frustrating because it seemed to come out of nowhere.
“It’s absolutely cruel,” said Syracuse musician Colin Aberdeen, who has only recently started playing live gigs again. “They’ve been dangling the idea that these venues can reopen, and then, arbitrarily and randomly they take it away. I mean I’m all for safety protocols, but they have to make sense. Why would they do this?”
Aberdeen and his band Los Blancos recently played a Sunday night gig at The 443, and had plans for more. Those are now cancelled. The 443 is a full-service bar and restaurant, but its business model depends on live music as the attraction.
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And people think this will end with the election. The left is never going to give up this control. In fact, they’ve only just begun.
he dems have declared all-out war on The Gig Economy. It started in California and now it has spread to New York.
No! You are NOT ALLOWED to be Self Employed! You MUST work as a part of The Collective! Or, you will not work at all!!!
My favorite scene in Atlas Shrugged is the final one: After the ‘gang’ frees John Galt from the State Torture Facility, as they fly out of the city... all of the New York City metropolis, goes dark, one section after another, as their social and political policies reach their inevitable full results. .
I guess I’m pretty mean, but I’m looking forward to something like that happening in Real Life. But I do hope that the deent people get out of there long before that happens.
All fun is hereby outlawed. To the left, if you are having fun, laughing, smiling, it must be at the expense of someone else - most likely a protected minority. Therefore, no fun is allowed.
86 Bedford Street should be popular again...
Keep voting Democrat.
Bingo!
Exactly.
Did you catch Heels Up Harris at the Rat Convention? She said something to the efect of CCPVirus has eyes and knows we are a racist society so it attacks blacks more, just like we do.
So a restaurant that normally features live music can’t say use the selling of tickets as a method to menage capacity. Seems like selling/using tickets to limit capacity would be welcomed by King Cuomo.
Just goes to show it’s not about keeping people safe, it’s about control. I bet they cant cite ONE case of CCPVirus as a result of live act.
Just call the concert a protest or a riot. Then you’re in like Flynn.
And BTW, aren’t most musicians liberals? Why would COVID-mo want to hurt his base?
California has had rolling blackouts this week.
I don’t plan to stay in Maryland forever. Baltimore will eventually go just as dark, with some poor guy standing in front of a broken-down MARC train with no idea how to fix it because the CSX company went bankrupt.
SUCKS who you vote for get all of your heads out of your asses, these entertainers are ALL Dems you can bet on it!!
Yep. He is screwing over his base. I can guarantee you these leftists cheered the shutdowns early on because they wanted it to hurt Trump, however they didn’t count on Killer Cuomo and others refusing to relent for months on end.
Now they are begging for normalcy but they have enabled a beast they has a lust for power and won’t give it up.
“All fun is hereby outlawed. To the left, if you are having fun, laughing, smiling, it must be at the expense of someone else - most likely a protected minority. Therefore, no fun is allowed.”
And there was a lot of self-righteous glee when smoking was banned. No, the left didn’t stop at that. One little freedom at a time.
Syracuse is a blue bit in an ocean of Upstate red.
Q for Syracuse: Had enough yet?
It isn’t “mean”; it is natural to want to see the supporters of these crazy (and dangerous) notions accept the consequences.
I live in NJ and vote as a conservative, but this state deserves the decline it is suffering. On top of that, it can’t recover because of those same policies.
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