Tiger Drive In becoming Concert Venue

The world has changed since COVID-19.  The new normal now involves social distancing.  Well, the Tiger Drive-In has changed too and has now become a concert venue.  On May 22 and 23, Tiger Drive-In will host a Drive-In Country Concert featuring Keith Burns of Trick Pony and Presley and Taylor, tells Tom Major, owner of the Tiger Drive-In.  “We are so fortunate!  Gov. Kemp opened the theater up about a month ago and we discovered that concert companies can’t do concerts anymore.  So, they knew we were open and asked if we could be a concert venue for them and I said yes.  This weekend is our first weekend.  It will be Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23.  We have the stars coming from Nashville, they are setting up the stage, they have their own equipment, and we are having a live concert.  Friday at 4pm, Keith Burns of Trick Pony along with two upcoming stars, two young ladies that are sisters, Presley and Taylor, who actually sang in Nashville on the Grand Ole Opry.  We have the concert at 4pm and then we shut it down.  By the way, it’s $75 per car, we don’t care how many people you put in the car.  Then we will open back up for a movie at 6:30pm.  On Saturday, we have two concerts, one at 1pm and then we shut it down and clear everybody out, have another concert at 4pm, and then we shut it down again, and have a movie.  So, you will see some of this almost every weekend.  We will have some live stars coming to us, either streaming to us or actually on stage here at the Tiger Drive-In.  How about that?”  Major says this will be a social distancing family fun event.  “We used to be able to hold 220 cars and now we are lucky if we can get 70 cars on the spots we have created.  Our restaurant is open but you can’t come in it.  So, basically one person gets out of the car and comes up to the snack bar window, or the Tiger Drive-In Grill, excuse me, and they place their order.  Then they go back to the car and we call them to come pick up their order at another window.  We have social spacing for the bathrooms.  Thanks to Moonrise, we have sanitizer and whatever, so it’s a different thing.  You really have to get here early to get a good spot or even get a spot because we only have room for 70 cars.”  To order your tickets visit https://mercy-music-city.ticketleap.com/ or visit http://tigerdrivein.com.