sanctioned concert in the country. And the Tupelo Music Hall wasn’t just reopening. It was reinventing itself.The inside of the 700-seat hall was dark. Instead, the venue built an outdoor stage, installed a sound system and divided up the parking lot to accommodate 75 cars. It temporarily rebranded itself as the “Tupelo Drive-In Experience.”Tupelo owner Scott Hayward came up with the outdoor concept in early May after Gov.
“Forget about constitutional rights and all that stuff,” he said. “If you go to a restaurant, you have to wear a shirt. If the state said I could open my indoor venue, I wouldn’t do that. You have to marry what you know about this and what’s safe and what the government’s allowing.”Typically, Tupelo Music Hall brings in $300,000 a month in ticket sales with a slate of performers that has included blues legend Buddy Guy, English songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson, and Heart’s Ann Wilson.
“We want to see if this works,” said Seth Rolbein, Payomet’s board president. “Maybe we can do it on the Cape.”