Entertainment on the Squares
 

Question: I live in St Augustine and have a second home in TV. Can anyone tell me when they anticipate resuming the live entertainment on the squares?

Thanks

Contact info: Home - The Villages Entertainment : The Villages Entertainment

Nobody knows but looks like it will be awhile.

Not so sure. The Farmers Market resumes today at Brownwood.

Talked to a singer yesterday who has connections in the local entertainment world. She said it looks like August right now but could even be late July.

Until there is an actual announcement from the people at the Entertainment Dept, who books the acts, no one will know. I wouldn't be surprised if the recent spike in cases in FL causes a further delay.

At one time the rumor was October...now the rumor has it earlier

It was just announced that two movie theatres in TV are opening up at 50%...

The Saturday Farmer's Market in Brownwood is back

Dancing on the squares is still anyone's guess

Must have been this same entertainer with first hand knowledge from a topic a month ago. in a previous thread:

Yep, it did change. Hope this one is right. Eventually someone will be. :D

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The band Steelhorse is booked for for July 14th at Lake Sumter Landing according to TheVillages.com calendar. Hope it's correct

Last I heard was early 2023.

There is dancing on the squares now just bring your own music. Saw them at Lake Sumter Thursday.

Hope not for a long while.

That’s #BOM & #BOC. That’s Bring your Own Music and Bring your Own COVID!

The percentage of cases has held steady. Higher numbers are the result of more testing, not more cases. Doubt a further delay will result.

Call it a protest, but unlike a protest keep your distance and don't destroy anything.

How about a protest with a quarantine. Walk around your own home with signs, then break in and destroy your own stuff.

Yesterday, Saturday June 13th, I heard that it will possibly be sometime in the middle of July.

they are dancing at lake sumter. about 20 line dancers last night, plus others. They pipe in TV music station.

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The bartender at Bluefin in Brownwood told us last night they heard start date was July 6. I doubt if they know for sure.

According to my dentist who heard it from his barber it will be the first Tuesday after the first Wednesday of the next month with two full moons.

If the rate of new COVID cases being reported continues to skyrocket here in Florida, it may not be until we learn to practice the recommendations of the doctors, and not the politicians. Or until a proven vaccine is developed and made available.

Why not just call it “Entertainment Rioting” and start today??

Could you point me to the study that you saw that gave you this info, or are you just watching Fox News again. Yes some of the increase in cases can be attributed to more testing but some is so attributed to less social distancing. No one knows the percentage each make up of the total case increase.

How does this relate to opening up the squares?

When outsiders ( and villagers ) wear masks and villagers learn social distancing... then the squares can open Otherwise unless you want Covid back again.. stay away

Here's a good site to track cases and deaths by state and total U.S. Florida is having an increase in cases while deaths remain steady for now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...-cases-deaths/

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Sure there is more testing because more people are feeling sick and therefore more sick people are being tested. You think people are just running around getting tested for no reason if they feel perfectly fine and then being found to be positive at higher rates than when this was "bad" ? Just coincidentally 1-2 weeks after Memorial Day crowds? Are more people DYING just because more are are being tested? DYING & TESTING aren't related. We remain very lucky here in the bubble at the moment but Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami areas aren't.

Florida COVID-19 daily total of positive tests/deaths for the last two weeks:

• June 13: 2,581 / 48
• June 12: 1,902 / 29
• June 11: 1,698 / 47
• June 10: 1,371 / 36
• June 9: 1,096 / 53
• June 8: 966 / 12
• June 7: 1,180 / 12
• June 6: 1,270 / 28
• June 5: 1,305 / 53
• June 4: 1,419 / 41
• June 3: 1,317 / 36
• June 2: 617 / 70
• June 1: 667 / 9
• May 31: 739 / 4

Wait until they stuff 12,000 people into an arena in Oklahoma or 6000 in Jacksonville. Listen to the doctors and scientists not to the politicians who are trying to impress another politician.

Overall, the state has tallied 73,552 coronavirus cases. The "overall" rate of people testing positive for COVID-19 is five percent, but that rate rose to 6.2 percent on June 11, according to a DOH statement.

Careful vigilance is a good idea but some of these rules seem baseless. How is an open-air farmers market safer than listening to live music outside? How is going to Disney or Universal or the beach safer? Based on what science?

Sometimes I wonder if they are really just testing us to see if we will follow.

Some of these decision makers are the same bozos who put COVID infected seniors in with non-infected seniors and are allowing anything-goes for angry mobs.

Not till October I heard and why would anyone be asking this or thinking that huge crowd events should come back right now?? Just asking?
I know I am keeping a common sense approach to expectations and not acting entitled for bad reasons. It’s clearly a bad idea to bring back large crowds at the squares with no distancing possible.

After going down steadily for the week starting June 1, unfortunately percent positive has been going up since then in Florida. I'm referring to percent positive from the following link, not number of positives, which as we know is not a useful metric.

http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_pa...rts_latest.pdf

Poor comparison. The farmer's market isn't nearly as packed as the squares during "prime" entertainment. Unless you are referring to something like Marion Market the local Farmers market isn't any worse than Walmart. I'm sure you've seen the squares during Rocky and the Elders or Scooter or lots others popular bands. People are seated shoulder to shoulder next to each other and the dance floor is totally packed. People sweat, and rub against each other and touch and cough and sneeze. It's even bad without a pandemic on hot humid nights. There are some entertainers who get very low attendance but the top ones pack the place. No comparison to the Farmer's Market.

Disney is limiting to 25% crowds and require masks and temperature taking when they open in mid-July(I have a pass and still wouldn't go there). As for the beaches they still aren't nearly as close as would be in the squares if it is controlled. That's what created a lot of the problem in FL during spring break. At least now it is (barely) being controlled.

We were in Sumter landing last Friday and could not believe how crowded several outdoor bars were with people standing shoulder to shoulder.

First time we have been there since this whole thing started and probably not back for quite some time.

Its a shame as we really miss that place and the restaurants.

It’s amazing the number of Covidiots that hang out in bars shoulder to shoulder not wearing masks. Especially at City Fire. We stay far away from those places but drove by in the golf cart the other evening while picking up some take out from VKI in LSL. I know the alcohol in hand sanitizer kills the virus, but I don’t think drinking lots of it in close proximity to others works?

Rocky and the Rollers will be performing at Brownwood on August 14th.

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It will be great to get back to semi normal life.

On Rocky’s website, it says they have four bookings in Villages squares in July. It shows cancellations for March through June so it doesn’t appear to be outdated information.

They too can be cancelled as quickly as March through June was.

If I were a betting man I wouldn't want to bet on that happening. They will keep scheduling entertainment and keep cancelling it as they have been doing.

EdFNJ, I notice your note about sneezing. I'm taking classes at the reopened Enrichment Academy. I never realized how many people have a "nervous cough." I'm not overly concerned about the virus, but this one woman in front of me yesterday was coughing lightly every couple of minutes throughout the class and not always covering her mouth, much less wearing a mask. It was not a smoker's cough. Pretty sure it was a classic "nervous cough." If not, and she was sick, she shouldn't be in class!

I don't like to use the saying "you can't fix stupid," but I might make an exception here. But she can fix it!