Friday, April 24, was to be the finale of the four-part Greetings From Levy Park concert series.
Instead, it will mark the third concert that has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent “stay-at-home” and social distancing mitigation measures.
And, to add insult to injury, “We would have had the most beautiful season, weather-wise, ever,” lamented Keeffer Kelbaugh, one of three organizers of Greetings.
The free concert series got off to a good start with the well-attended performance of The Canvas People on March 6. But a week later schools and non-essential businesses were closed and gatherings of more than 10 people discouraged.
Early on, Kelbaugh and fellow organizers Kyle Gordon and Amy Thibodeaux announced they would postpone the planned March 20 and April 3 shows featuring Dead Horses and The Suffers, respectively.
When the governor extended the stay-at-home order through April, The High Divers’ concert on April 24 was nixed.
“We’ve rescheduled The Suffers for a free show at The Grand Opera House on June 11,” Kelbaugh said. “That show was two years in the making and, because they’re from Houston, it was pretty easy to reschedule them. I didn’t want to let that go by.”
Dead Horses will be rescheduled for next year’s series “if not sooner,” Kelbaugh said. “If they come South we’ll host them somewhere, somehow.”
The band hails from Madison Wisconsin.
The High Divers, from Charleston, South Carolina, who preformed last year in a concert moved to the second floor of Zeus because of weather, “will probably be back next year, too,” Kelbaugh said.