The 2020 Concord Multicultural Festival has joined the long list of events canceled because of COVID-19.
The festival committee has still scheduled Welcoming Week from Sept. 12 to 20, and will be at the State House presenting international art, dance and music on Aug. 22 as part of “Market Month” in Concord, a celebrating that replaces the city’s on-hold Market Days Festival.
“At a time when the morale of our country is low and citizens are fighting for equality and justice and the right to live, the Concord Multicultural Festival was a welcome celebration. We had plans to build on that momentum this year, but instead, we will shift our energies to fulfill our mission in other ways,” the festival committee said in making the announcement.
New Hampshire saw an unexpected bit of bad news over the weekend with back-to-back days of high numbers of new cases as well as more hospitalizations. The state has also seen seven deaths in the past four days.
All these reversed trends in the past two weeks of declining or stable figures for measures of COVID’s spread and impact in the state.
On Friday the state reported 59 confirmed new cases of the disease, the highest daily tally since early June, and on Saturday it reported 45 more. Daily results can fluctuate depending on reporting patterns from the half-dozen different laboratories that test samples throughout the state, and Sunday’s tally was back down to 23, roughly its recent average.
