A week on, music returns to the City of Lights
Shows by Celine Dion, John Fogerty and Britney Spears are helping Las Vegas return to its "high-glitz version of normal", a week after the massacre at Route 91 Harvest
News By IQ | 9 October 2017
One week on from the murder of 58 patrons of country music festival Route 91 Harvest, Las Vegas is returning to normality, with a string of emotionally charged performances by major artists helping the city to recover from the worst mass shooting in US history.
As expected, there were several cancellations in the wake of the attack – which saw gunman Stephen Paddock open fire on the open-air festival from the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 59 people, including himself, in the early hours of Monday morning – with Jennifer Lopez, Blue Man Group and Jason Aldean, who was performing at the time of the shooting, among those to call off scheduled shows.
However, Celine Dion, who is midway through an eight-year residency at the Colosseum…
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