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This year, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra embarks once more on its statewide Summer Festival Tour, serenading picnickers with pop favorites and upbeat classical selections. But. ....
By: Andy Gensler (photo by Matt Lief-Anderson/Courtesy Bring Music Home) Comfort Dog: Three weeks after Tamara Deike interviewed Jason McNeely (above), owner of Austin’s Barracuda, the venue permanently closed. If ever there was a vital document capturing the essence of what this year made America’s clubs so universally beloved, it’s “Bring Music Home,” a glorious new coffee table book chronicling more than 200 independent clubs in 30 U.S. markets. Co-authored by Tamara Deike and Amber Mundinger, with sumptuous art direction by Kevin W. Condon, this 500-page tome, weighing some 9 pounds, quickly makes clear what powers these treasured music temples: People. Human beings. Mere mortals. That is, the 375 owners, GMs, ....
Skip to main content Currently Reading Photos of empty San Antonio music venues The Lonesome Rose, Majestic Theatre, Paper Tiger capture toll of COVID on live entertainment Deborah Martin, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 The Lonesome Rose is one of the San Antonio venues featured in “Bring Music Home,” a coffee table book that aims to depict the impact of the pandemic on performing arts spots across the country.Oscar MorenoShow MoreShow Less 2of6 The Paper Tiger is one of the San Antonio clubs depicted in “Bring Music Home,” a coffee table book that depicts the impact of the pandemic on performing arts spots across the country.Oscar MorenoShow MoreShow Less ....
COVID IS KILLING LIVE MUSIC Dec. 17, 2020 at 5:00 am WHAT IF WE NEVER HAD LIVE MUSIC AGAIN? Don’t even think it! That would never happen, right? Musicians are nothing if not resilient. And we have a vaccine now, things will eventually get back to some kind of near “normal.” Sure, but… If all musicians have are backyards and train stations and such, if they have to create and work for only what you throw in the hat, the best will die on the vine. I’m not going to go into the whole network of playing live and recording, give it a thought and you can figure it out, and you will realize that even if YOU no longer go out to hear live music (yeah, it’s a hassle, a beautiful life-affirming hassle), without it there is no sifting of talent, no ascension of the best, no widespread recognition and the recordings that result, for the pleasure of you stay-at-home music fans, and you will have to work really hard to glaze through a million youtubes and a billion ins ....