The Virus and MUSIC

**gurnemanz** · 11-06-20, 09:52

No comment needed.

**oddoneout** · 17-06-20, 13:18

This could have gone in various places but here seems as good as any...

Suites, shoots and leaves: Spanish opera house reopens with concert for plants

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/spanish-opera-house-reopens-with-concert-for-plants-barcelona

String quartet will play Puccini for potted audience at grand venue in Barcelona

**DracoM** · 17-06-20, 14:40

I am involved in running two local festival's sequences of events, and both sequences have had to be cancelled.
BUT
If we re-start in 2021, with contracts already signed carried over, we will then be competing for AUDIENCES with a whole raft of other events who have also postponed from 2020, plus postponed holidays taking people away.

So, in effect, we run the big risk of massive loss of revenue but with same fees to pay, and costs to bear. But we desperately want / need to give musicians places to play in and entertainment for starved audiences.....yet, ...and yet....we could end up sufficiently and horrendously out of pocket as to imperil or even terminate any future events we may want to run....

.................Catch 22 or what?

**oddoneout** · 17-06-20, 20:56

Originally posted by DracoM View Post

I am involved in running two local festival's sequences of events, and both sequences have had to be cancelled.
BUT
If we re-start in 2021, with contracts already signed carried over, we will then be competing for AUDIENCES with a whole raft of other events who have also postponed from 2020, plus postponed holidays taking people away.

So, in effect, we run the big risk of massive loss of revenue but with same fees to pay, and costs to bear. But we desperately want / need to give musicians places to play in and entertainment for starved audiences.....yet, ...and yet....we could end up sufficiently and horrendously out of pocket as to imperil or even terminate any future events we may want to run....

.................Catch 22 or what?

But will you be competing with more than would have been the case this year? The holidays issue is certainly an unknown - even if people aren't going away it may be because of finance(reduced or no employment) so attendance at events might be hit.