"We could see that the pandemic was having some significant impacts," Lorena Kelly, the communications and operations manager at Sask Music, said. "And we realized we didn't have any benchmark data for a current normal year of music, so that once we're on the other side of all of this, we can look at things and know when we've actually achieved a recovery." The last time a survey like this was conducted was 2008, and those responses are widely outdated, Kelly said. They're hoping to estimate the economic impact, social benefits and financial health of the local music scene. The Ness Creek Music Festival was supposed to celebrate 30 years in 2020. Instead it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021. (Nathan Jones/Ness Creek Music Festival/Facebook)