CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Like most music venues, the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa was closed for more than a year during the height of the COVID-19 crisis.
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The venue was able to reopen in June, but with COVID-19 cases on the rise, management is taking extra precautions to try and stay open.
Beginning Friday, the venue will require concertgoers to provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test to attend any performance.
Channel 9′s Mark Becker talked to Gregg McCraw of MaxxMusic who books the artists for the venue.
>> Watch the video at the top of this page to find out why McCraw and the staff decided to make these requirements.
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