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In the final installment of our series exploring two years of the pandemic's impact on the performing arts industry, we look at the live music scene and local music venues, with stories from a venue owner, security staff and a performer.
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Twenty-one years. That’s how long Chris Goldsmith has been working at the Belly Up Tavern. But there was nothing that happened in those 21 years that could have prepared him for 2020, the year that the coronavirus pandemic shut down the country’s music venues in one sudden, shattering swoop.
“It has been surreal. That is the best way to describe it,” said Goldsmith, president of Belly Up Entertainment. “The club is usually such a vibrant, crazy place that is so full of life, and for the last year, I have spent far too many hours in the club as an empty shell of its usual self. “