Faced with the evolution of the pandemic, which could lead to “local restrictions”, the management of the Rennes festival, the next edition of which is to be held next week, has decided to temporarily reduce the sale of tickets to 75% of the capacity. standing concerts.
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The Trans Musicales festival, which is due to hold its next edition in Rennes from December 1 to 5, is taking the lead: faced with the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic, the management of the annual event has decided “as a precaution“to limit the sale of tickets for indoor concerts in standing format to 75% of their capacity.
“This decision is made to ensure access to all people who buy a ticket“for concerts”at the Ubu and in the halls of the Expo Park“(where the bulk of the event is held), specify the Trans Musicales Monday, November 22 in a press release. The venues of the festival in seated format (L’Aire Libre, Le TNB and Le Triangle) are not affected by this decision and remain in gauge at 100%.
As of November 15, standing concerts are again allowed nationwide with 100% fill gauges. Corn “the evolution of the health situation remains however likely to lead to local restrictions“, underlines the direction of the festival in its press release.
However, government spokesman Gabriel Attal spoke on Sunday of a start-up “dazzling“ of the 5th wave of Covid-19, the number of daily cases having almost doubled in one week: it was 17,153 Saturday, against 9,458 the previous Saturday, an increase of 81%. The epidemic is rampant: before that, it had taken three weeks for the number of daily cases to increase in the same proportions.
“If the sanitary situation finally makes it possible to keep the gauges at 100% until the festival, and unless the competent authorities are ordered to do so, we will put the remaining 25% of places on sale on Monday, November 29 at the latest; and before that if possible“, again indicates the statement of Trans Musicales.
On the ticketing side, the 3-day passes and the weekend passes are already sold out for the next edition of the Trans Musicales. At Parc Expo, the gauge is already 75% full for Saturday and ticket sales suspended for that evening. However, there are still places for Thursday and Friday.