Event Designer Bobby Garza In Austin, In a Pandemic: 'Food o

Event Designer Bobby Garza In Austin, In a Pandemic: 'Food or No Food,' That Is the Question


Many issues need to be addressed before indoor concerts can resume
and be viable, like whether to require masks or serve food. "The biggest thing," Bobby Garza says, "is to fix your HVAC system."
When the concert business shut down in March 2020,
Bobby Garza abruptly shifted from putting on live events to tearing them down -- his company, Austin-based Forefront Networks, had to cancel the California food-and-music festival Yountville Live later that month. In early April, his life changed even more dramatically: Forefront furloughed 30 percent of its staff, including him.
As part of
Billboard's efforts to best cover the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts on the music industry, we will be speaking with Garza, a 43-year-old former Forefront creative team leader who used to be general manager of festival producer Transmission Events, every other week to chronicle his experience throughout the crisis. As of early January, he is now vice president of programs and community outreach at the Long Center, a performing-arts facility in Austin, which, among other things is working on dispersing emergency SAVES grants worth tens of thousands of dollars to struggling local concert venues. (Read the latest installment here and see the full series here.)

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