{"id":73176,"date":"2020-05-17T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=73176"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:15:14","slug":"keith-urbans-drive-in-concert-future-of-live-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/keith-urbans-drive-in-concert-future-of-live-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban\u2019s Drive-In Concert: Future Of Live Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-68936 \" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/keithurban001-e1535067407791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"447\" \/>Is Keith Urban\u2019s Drive-In Concert The Future Of Live Music? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Would You Go If You Could?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Keith Urban\u00a0shared the results of an intriguing live-concert experiment on NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>TODAY<\/em> this week, explaining his view on a performance for front line healthcare workers\u00a0at a drive-in movie theater. Calling the show \u201ca bit of a proof of concept\u201d from a performance standpoint, the country superstar spoke with\u00a0<em>TODAY<\/em>\u2019s Savannah Guthrie about the gig, which was held at a drive-in just outside Nashville. Urban was just the first artist scheduled to take part in a series of shows for Vanderbilt University healthcare workers and said the night went off without a hitch \u2014 even as he was figuring out \u201cwhat works and what doesn\u2019t\u201d in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VgXK4rjRaRQ]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a load of fun,\u201d Urban told his host, speaking from home and explaining how the show was something akin to an in-person Livestream. \u201cWe also really wanted to take the opportunity to not only do the first one but do it for the health care workers because that\u2019s what this is all about right now. They did an amazing job as an audience and I had a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With news of\u00a0tour postponements and cancelations\u00a0continuing to affect the country industry, the question has to be asked: Could these drive-in shows be the future of live concerts, at least in the near term?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67230\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville.png?w=750\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville.png 3243w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-300x33.png 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1024x112.png 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-768x84.png 768w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1536x169.png 1536w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-2048x225.png 2048w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/soundslikenashville-1568x172.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Keith Urban\u2019s Drive-In Concert The Future Of Live Music? Would You Go If You Could? Keith Urban\u00a0shared the results of an intriguing live-concert experiment on NBC\u2019s\u00a0TODAY this week, explaining his view on a performance for front line healthcare workers\u00a0at a drive-in movie theater. Calling the show \u201ca bit of a proof of concept\u201d from a performance standpoint, the country superstar spoke with\u00a0TODAY\u2019s Savannah Guthrie about the gig, which was held at a drive-in just outside Nashville. Urban was just the first artist scheduled to take part in a series<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/keith-urbans-drive-in-concert-future-of-live-music\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[104,110,131,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73611,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73176\/revisions\/73611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}