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Founded in the wake of a young musician's passing, this 23-year-old nonprofit has become a critical resource for the music scene in Athens, Ga.

Bob Sleppy: When the Music Stopped February 26, 2021 Nuçi’s Space Athens’ once vibrant music scene has been muted. And for now, the town just isn’t the same. Especially for the musicians themselves. The pandemic’s impact on the music community last spring was swift. One Athens-based band was onstage in the middle of a set when its musicians learned the rest of the tour was canceled. In a matter of days, people in the industry lost their livelihoods and their outlet for social connection and self-expression. “It wasn’t just people losing their jobs. Our entire industry stopped,”...

Chris Starrs Athens Banner-Herald Linda Phillips, who without ever playing a single note put an indelible mark on the iconic Athens music community, has died. Phillips, the founder of Nuçi’s Space, died Wednesday evening in New York City after a yearlong bout with pancreatic cancer, Nuçi’s Space executive director Bob Sleppy confirmed Thursday afternoon. “Linda was just an amazing lady,” Sleppy said Thursday evening. “For as open and kind and loving as she was, she was also somebody you just didn’t want to mess with. If she made up her mind she was going to do something, you’d...