Welcome to the June 2022 issue of La Scena Musicale, our first national summer festival issue since the beginning of the pandemic. Since our April/May national issue, COVID restrictions have been relaxed in Canada, concert halls are allowed to return to 100 per cent capacity without need for masks—although some, like Ottawa’s Music and Beyond, will stick with the two-metre rule, restrict capacity to 25 per cent and keep masks mandatory. La Scena Musicale advocates that masks should still be worn at all times indoors. Our last national June issue in 2019 listed 550 Canadian summer arts festivals. For 2022,…
