The Commercial Music Sector Lines Up Behind Required Vaccination Policies

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While nonprofit performing arts orgs aren’t alone in sorting out vaccination policies, they are still one among many. But the commercial music industry is able to go about this from a corporate level where presenting groups like Live Nation and AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) are able to address this from a one-to-many perspective. According to an article in the 8/19/21 edition of Variety by Chris Willman, those organizations aren’t discussing whether …

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Let’s Build A Performing Arts Org Required Vaccination Database

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Shortly after publishing a post about the momentum among performing arts organizations and performing arts centers behind adopting policies that require ticket buyers and employees to provide proof of vaccination, my wife, violinist Holly Mulcahy, posted a query on Facebook asking colleagues about policies at their organizations. Responses started rolling in and it made me wonder if any of the usual suspect service orgs or unions were tracking this information. After …

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Looking For Some Free, High Quality Social Media Templates?

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Every so often I post an update to a series of articles that feature some free Photoshop templates I use for creating header images for Twitter and Facebook but this time around I found a set of really nice templates from Kambadastudio. They put together a series of free downloads for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook; and by free, I mean actual direct downloads, none of the “give us your …

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Be A Part Of The Solution: Vaccination Requirements

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Insisting on verifiable vaccination status to attend concert events is becoming policy at an increasing number of nonprofit performing arts venues. One of the latest is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, owned and operated by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. While the decision to require patrons be fully vaccinated or show proof of a negative coronavirus test over a specific number of hours carries risk, it’s still the best decision groups can …

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It Isn’t Often You See This Much Potential For Artistic Change

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The 8/3/2021 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article by Jeremy Reynolds that takes a deeper than normal look at the 13 openings at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). 13 simultaneous openings at an orchestra of this budget size that isn’t emerging from a major labor dispute and/or financial implosion is highly unusual. What’s more, five of those are principal level positions and one fixed seat position. 1st violins, three …

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