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Jackie Venson and Chris Cubas hosting the 2019/2020 Austin Music Awards last March at ACL Live at the Moody Theater (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
For hundreds of locals, the 2019/2020 Austin Music Awards transpired as the last big show they attended before life turned upside down.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, ACL Live at the Moody Theater: We were so naive, passing joints backstage on the Willie s Place balcony while getting and giving all the hugs and handshakes you could ever desire and living in utter denial of how bad the COVID-19 pandemic would soon become. City officials canceled South by Southwest the Friday previously, but venues worked to host unofficial shows and bands planned on playing them. ....

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