By: Michael Martin
Michael Martin
Our inability to gather at the altar of music, to share in the joy of its many communal gifts, has taken a toll on us all, especially the tens of thousands of brilliant, committed members of this industry. By now we are all comfortably numb to the losses of lives, health, wellness, experiences, time, confidence in too many institutions to count and, perhaps most of all, justice for too many Black lives and too many names we can never stop saying.
It has been and remains a devastating time. But as our beloved and critically essential industry emerges slowly from the darkness, there is something beautiful appearing; abundance of hope and a renewed commitment to coming back stronger, more united and more urgently focused than ever before.