New Music Monday for May 10, 2021
Renowned saxophonist
Vincent Herring battles back from a bout with Covid-19 and career-threatening side effects with a defiant and joyful new album, “Preaching to the Choir,” with swinging help from pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Johnathan Blake. Herring speaks for nearly all of us when he says, “2020 into 2021 was a morbid nightmare.” He experienced the pandemic first hand, not only contracting the virus but also suffering the same loss of performance opportunities befalling every musician during the past year. Despite the prevailing darkness, the disc delivers a sermon of optimism and hope to the jazz faithful.
9 & 10 News
December 19, 2020
Waitstaff from Vernales Restaurant in Harbor Springs are now pleading to go back to work.
“We’re being decimated. Our industry is fighting for its survival,” says Vernales bartender, Sara LaDuke. “Margins in restaurants are so small. You know, we have waste, we have food that goes bad and without employment it’s hard to survive on $3.62 max.”
LaDuke says many of their staff members are having to defer their mortgages and car payments.
“We took this big pay cut right before the holidays, no date on when we’re going to reopen and now we’ve just been extended longer and I just don’t know. There are so many places that won’t survive,” says LaDuke.