I dont know if the audience side really understands how dire the situation is for millions of hard-working professionals. Broadway is closed until 2021. Cirque du Soleil is filing for bankruptcy, and cut 3500+ jobs. Feld Entertainment laid off 90% of its workforce permanently. Live Nation had to lay off a significant amount of employees.
Cruise ship entertainers are out of work. Theme park productions have no idea when they will be recalled. There are no concerts, festivals or touring productions scheduled until 2021 and if they dont happen next year, they may never happen again.
No Jazz Fest, no Coachella, no Bonnaroo, no EDC, no ROLLING STONES FINAL TOUR(S), and no SYMPHONIES..all gone. Its being predicted that 90% of independent music venues may close, the longer this continues. No more Whiskey-a-gogo, no more Tipitinas, no more Red Rocks, all gone. Entertainment Management, Publicity, Live events coordinator, Performing arts organizations of all kinds- choirs, theatres, orchestras, dance companies- all are trying to figure out on a daily basis how to keep going and employ anyone they can in the field.
More than 12,000,000 people work entertainment production in the US and produce revenue in the multi billions of dollars, we are not insignificant and this industry cannot reopen until mass gatherings can happen again. This doesnt include the additional layoff of venue management and bar staff, security and thousands of vendors. Also, we cant forget about the hundreds of thousands of performers and entertainers that make our careers possible, without them, there is no show.
So when you see your entertainment friends begging you to wear masks and stay home, understand that we are helplessly watching our industry crumble before our eyes because the country is doing so poorly at reducing the spread. This IS personal for us, our entire livelihood is dependent on social gathering and we will not accept being labeled nonessential.
Music and art are critical to a cheerful, balanced society.
Everyones career and the whole industry is indefinitely on hold. PLEASE wear your mask (over your mouth AND your nose) and wash your hands.
(Gratefully copied from a post by Leona Flowers)
#SaveOurStages
(Copien from Morgan Hernandez by Mikola McCole) rok ja pop |
Tämän pitäisi olla musanetin yhteinen huolenaihe, jopa virallista kannanottoa myöten. Verrattaen hiljaista on ollut, mikä on helvetinmoinen sääli. I want that you are success 2020. Thats why I make totally crazy! |
Niin, tilanne on toki vähän erilainen täällä "lintukodossa" kuin vaikkapa Yhdysvalloissa, missä se on edelleen hyvinkin kuvaillun kaltainen eli katastrofaalinen. Ja esimerkiksi maskipakko ja kaikki tiukimmatkin suositukset ovat täysi välttämättömyys viruksen leviämisen estämiseksi.
Olkoonkin, että festarit ja keikat peruuntuivat täälläkin, ja palasivat osittain vain hetkeksi.
Koko keväthän tässä on arvuuteltu, että miten käy koko esittävän musiikin ilmiön ja kaikkien keikkapaikkojen, festarien, tai isojen urheilutapahtumien. Tuleeko niitä enää koskaan? Missä muodossa? Vasta joskus vuonna 2022? (Ainakaan "oikeassa maailmassa" eli vaikkapa USA:ssa, Aasiassa, manner-Euroopassa) |
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