With music‘s largest evening simply weeks away, the query on many minds is whether or not the 67th Annual Grammy Awards will likely be delayed because of the devastating wildfires ravaging Los Angeles.
The Grammys are presently scheduled to happen on Sunday, Feb. 2, at Crypto.com Area in downtown L.A. And whereas it’s usually a glamorous occasion to have a good time the previous yr’s largest artists and prime hits, town has larger priorities in the mean time.
A number of sources inform The Hollywood Reporter that discussions are underway to both postpone the CBS present (and all its ancillary occasions) or pivot the printed to a fundraiser. One senior tv govt says it’s extremely probably the Grammys will postpone, particularly as a result of the fireplace, sparked by a wind occasion earlier within the week — and the general catastrophe standing of town — remains to be lively.
One other music business supply says what transpires within the coming days will likely be key to figuring out if the present will, certainly, go on. Recording Academy head Harvey Mason Jr. is claimed to be considering a number of eventualities.
THR has reached out to the Recording Academy and CBS for remark.
Plans are additionally ongoing for a profit live performance within the days main as much as the scheduled Feb. 2 date that might contain MusiCares, the Grammys’ personal basis aimed toward aiding music professionals in want. Stay Nation, the Azoff household and AEG Presents introduced a Jan. 30 occasion to be held on the Intuit Dome. Collaborating artists and broadcast companions are nonetheless being decided.
Complexities that include a pure catastrophe of this measurement prolong past the logistical. The Grammys requires a whole bunch of lodge rooms for attendees, artists and their groups, to say nothing of musicians whose devices might have perished. Even regionally, so many within the music enterprise have been impacted, from label staffers to publicists for prime expertise like Billie Eilish and The Weeknd.
The Recording Academy has postponed the Grammys twice lately. The 2021 present was moved from January to March on account of COVID-19. The 2022 Grammys confronted an identical destiny, shifting from January to April on account of a spike of the virus’ Omicron variant. The Recording Academy moved the 2022 ceremony to Las Vegas, a primary for the Grammys.
Crypto.com Area, house to the NBA’s Lakers and NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, has additionally already postponed a number of scheduled video games this week “to give attention to what issues most,” the Lakers shared in a earlier assertion.
Since Tuesday, when the preliminary wildfire broke out in Pacific Palisades earlier than spreading to components of Malibu and Santa Monica in a single day, first responders throughout Los Angeles have been working tirelessly to include lively wildfires erupting throughout the county, together with the Eaton, Hurst and Kenneth fires. The loss of life toll has additionally risen to 11 folks, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Workplace mentioned Friday.
The Palisades Hearth alone is being reported as probably the most harmful in Los Angeles historical past, claiming greater than 5,300 buildings, together with properties, condominium buildings and companies throughout greater than 20,000 acres. And the Eaton Hearth in Altadena and Pasadena has claimed 1000’s extra.
Hundreds of L.A. residents have misplaced their properties within the destruction from the flames, with many taking to social media to doc the devastation and the impression the fires had on their communities. Amongst them are additionally quite a few celebrities, together with Mandy Moore, Anna Faris, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jeff Bridges, Bozoma Saint John, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal and Diane Warren, whose homes have been destroyed by the blazes.
As of Saturday night, the Kenneth Hearth was 90 % contained; the Palisades Hearth close to the shoreline was 11 % contained; and the Eaton Hearth was 15 % contained. The Hurst Hearth, south of Santa Clarita, was 76 % contained.
