Live Music in the New World: How Music Workers in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Guatemala Are Adjusting to COVID-19
Concert of the Argentine band Bandalos Chinos. Photo: Leandro Frutos
One year ago I was drinking my Argentine mate, likely touched by the saliva of thousands of strangers, at the Bahidorá Carnival, a Mexican music festival in a gorgeous natural reserve. This event opens a key live music series in Mexico that includes Nrmal Festival, the Vive Latino, and the Ceremonia. We are still in the innocent and hopeful beginning of 2020, and I am covering for KEXP, without knowing it, what would be the last few concerts with a live audience in our pre-pandemic reality.