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Jasmine Beach performs in The Stomach recording studio in Palmerston North for Stuff in The Stomach, which is celebrating NZ Music Month 2021.
Music isn’t just artistic expression for tenderfoot singer-songwriter Jasmine Beach, it’s a tool to overcome life’s challenges, writes
Rachel Moore. It’s little wonder she is always singing, writing songs or playing around with chords on a guitar. Jasmine Beach grew up in a home immersed in music. Whether it be the sound of her mother singing, or her father playing guitar and talking about the blues, it was a comforting constant through her childhood.
One of Michigan’s biggest, most celebrated music festivals has fallen prey to COVID-19 for the second year in a row.
Electric Forest in Rothbury, which had hoped to stage a postponed 2021 festival in August, instead announced that canceling this year’s music festival was the “only course of action.”
That cancellation follows on the heels of similar moves by other regional festivals, including the Buses by the Beach Bus Benefit north of Holland over Memorial Day weekend and late August’s Willowsong Music Festival in Sidney.
Electric Forest’s decision came “after a tumultuous year full of challenges” that included pushing the late June festival to alternative dates in August with hopes that 40,000-plus attendees might be able to gather on the Double JJ Resort site.
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As Red Rocks awaits a variance approval from the state of Colorado that would allow the outdoor venue to host up to 2,500 people this year, some of its spring, summer and even fall concerts have been further rescheduled or cancelled altogether.
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Red Rocks website, which still has a posted schedule for 2021, also has a COVID-19 update for 2021 shows. As of March 16, a handful of shows scheduled for April have already been moved to November, and two others have been rescheduled for 2022.
Pop stars, country artists and electronic dance fests have already been completely pulled from the 2021 calendar. Global Dub Festival in May, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and Halsey, both in July, and Maren Morris, who was scheduled for September, are now all
New tech that allows artists to interact with superfans and turn their data into dollars promises to open long-term revenue streams
Jessie Reyez loves to text, especially with fans. Using a phone number assigned through the celebrity text-messaging startup Community and shared on her social media accounts, the singer-songwriter makes time nearly every day to have one-on-one conversations with her most dedicated supporters where they share memes and talk about their lives.
“Some really kind fans send me heartfelt messages, and we have exchanges regularly now that I have them in my favorites,” says Reyez. “Distance between humans seems to be getting larger and larger. However, being able to get directly into [fans’] text messages has been a step in making a fan more than a fan.”