As 2020 draws to a close, we reflect on 10 top PBS feature albums that helped us survive this most challenging of years. Before doing this, however, we d like to reminisce on PBS Radio Festival fundraiser, our annual two-week campaign that helps keep PBS going as an independent, free-to-air radio station.
In 2020, we ran Radio Festival under the banner, ‘You Can’t Stop The Music’. We chose to promote this message of resilience and hope for obvious reasons. Though nothing was obvious about 2020. It was a year characterised by an unsettling murkiness that we nonetheless had to somehow navigate. The unusual circumstances that the COVID-19 pandemic brought were perturbing, to say the least. Our music community was especially affected by social restrictions and lockdown measures. Venues were forced to close, gigs were cancelled, and many releases were put on hold. And it felt like our entire cultural structure was held hostage. Accordingly, we had to make radio different