Pandora Music

For City Winery, this dizzying ping-pong of adjustments and discrepancies over time and across different areas has made it particularly challenging to maintain the music playing at even certainly one of its locations, not to mention the other seven. “We have much less money to pay our distributors and artists,” says Dorf, noting that exhibits usually hosting 1,500 ticket holders at the moment are seating just some hundred. “There’s this nice recalibration that needs to occur if live music goes to continue.” For artists, who tend to make the bulk of their earnings performing stay, this might jeopardize their capability to plan profitable tours once the pandemic is over. “You cannot get on a bus and play at a boarded-up building,” Schaefer points out.

The Barracuda in Austin, The Satellite in Los Angeles and Portland’s Port City Music Hall are just a few of the venues which have … Read More