Can the Blue Angels Come Every Day?

It has been a while since Nashville has smiled in unison. The Blue Angels’ 17-minute Nashville area flyover on May 14th was a unifying moment of excitement, something positive in a constant flood of muck!

That includes George Strait pulling the plug on 2020 huge stadium shows at Notre Dame and Minneapolis, now reset for the Summer of 2021, and Kenny Chesney finally wiping 2020 clean and moving the “Chillaxifaction Tour” into 2021. Fans can have their tickets move with the show, or soon go for refunds. Fans have been getting louder and louder about the tour status, and now they know.

The Hollywood Bowl this week canceled its entire season for the first time in nearly 100 years.

There was hope that the summer of 2020 would be a year reboot. That now seems iffy at best. Major League Baseball is infighting with the owners and players’ union. NASCAR is back without fans in the stands. The beaches seem to be opening, but a solitary summer approaches with little to no music

Concerts are on the schedule, but will they be allowed to go on? The Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam in Panama City, Florida, keeps announcing more performers, and they are set for the Labor Day weekend.

Downtown Nashville is still a silent ghost town. A late summer resurgence in activity would be a blessing at this point. The NFL seems to be going with or without fans. Colleges are starting to announce fall classes, but will there be football?

Do you ever wish someone could hit fast forward so we can do New Year’s Day 2021 and hopefully rediscover the life we had in February? Is it really going to be a tour-less summer for all the road crews? It is hard to imagine, and sad to imagine. A number of Nashville’s best are peddling hard to keep up morale and help those in need. You know who they are, and they deserve huge thank you!

The “American Idol” and “The Voice” seasons are ending on a whimper. The singing at home in the Zoom boxes is better than nothing, but not too much better. God bless them for trying.

Prince’s estate put on YouTube for the first time his 1985 show at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. Brad Paisley, with Bud Light Seltzer sponsoring, did a full band production show on Friday, May 15th on the Bud Light and Paisley social platforms (8 p.m. CT if you’re reading this on Friday). Lady Antebellum was part of that show too.

Garth Brooks put out some new songs on Amazon Music this week. Thomas Rhett’s “Beer Can’t Fix” song with Jon Pardi ended up where we all thought it would: #1.

I ate at two different restaurants this week. That was great! Hope you can find some local people to help in that regard. If you did that, did you feel a bit nervous? I sure did. Still, aren’t we all so tired of drive-up food, Zoom boxes and no sports on TV? It will be nice to have our lives back at some point.

The Blue Angels helped Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Nashville and Little Rock smile for a few minutes this week. The USAF Thunderbirds did the same for Austin and San Antonio. We needed that dose of beauty and patriotism. Darius Rucker singing the national anthem for Darlington on Sunday (5/17) will do the same.

We will get our music back. We will go out to eat, and we will enjoy an outdoor concert again, as soon as its safe, and while the days are long and the air is warm!