A year with no concerts
The Gazette’s Brendan Kelly talked to a honcho at Evenko about a year with no concerts.
What can I say, we’re into the Christmas news lull now.
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Michael Black 12:20 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
But this sort of thing can be written ahead of time, so there’s content at a time when many get time off.
More to gripe about is that Brendan Kelly seems to be writing about people he knows, and they most so far have it pretty good. The Westmount High gym teacher may be more everyman than a major event planner or an online poker mogul, but it has left out the people who’ve had a really bad pandemic year.
All these 9 months there’s not been much mention of people without credit cards, how online grocery ordering is really aimed at convenience for people with money, how difficult it seems to be to get a big bag of brown rice or beans sent to your home. What happens when you can’t get to multiple grocery stores to buy things because they are on sale, or when there are no rummage or book sales or garage sales?
A few of these things get mentioned, but not much. And there are endless stories about businesses closing or adapting, and well off people get prominent column coverage, but very little written from the viewpoint of someone with little money.
EmilyG 13:53 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
This isn’t particularly “lull” news for arts workers.
I know that it’s easy to criticize higher-ups at big organizations for having a hard year. And I know it’s easy for a lot of people to dismiss the arts/culture/music scene as though it’s something unimportant.
But so many of my friends and colleagues are musicians, or otherwise work in the arts, and they’ve had a dismal year. (Which ties in with Michael Black’s comment above, about how people who have had a really bad year tend to not be written about.)
Yes, Osheaga is a huge event with a lot of successful, big-name artists, but there are also many smaller bands who play there and at other, smaller events. Many of the musicians I know have lost a whole lot of money in touring revenue (which wouldn’t have even been a huge amount of money.) And the big majority of musicians hardly make any money from streaming services.
Kate 15:06 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
Sorry, EmilyG. Interesting stories are often scarce this time of year and i was link-diving. Did not mean to dismiss the troubles being felt by people in the arts.
EmilyG 16:29 on 2020-12-23 Permalink
I understand.
Perhaps it’s telling about media reporting on arts in general, that this story is being published during a time when there are more quiet news days (though artists have been having a hard time all year.)