This whole event promoters ordinance thing really worries me, as a musician and concert-goer. It seems once again bureaucracy is blaring its misguided horn and the voices of real people try to respond in the midst of its honking.
“The ordinance will reduce the amount of music in Chicago, make events more expensive for consumers, dampen the large and growing economic engine that is Chicago music, and create a much less supportive business climate for Chicago’s small music business community.” -Chicago Music Commission
So, if an independent musician wants to have a CD release party at a club, I need to have $300,000 in insurance?
Or if someone wants to throw a benefit for an injured musician at a venue, same deal?
Hmm. Well, all I can do (besides attend the city council meeting) is continue working on the album. I go in this weekend to the studio again. I’m spending so much money on this little baby. But I have started to become less and less anxious about the outcome and rest in the knowledge that I’m a musician no matter what–and that will lead me to the next waterfall of creativity and opportunity.
