Making a Scene Presents - How to Create a Local Music Scene

If you’re waiting for your local scene to “come back,” you might be waiting a long time.

That’s not because your town stopped caring about music. It’s because the pandemic didn’t just shut down venues. It broke habits. It changed what people consider “worth leaving the house for.” It raised costs for everybody. It made small rooms more fragile. It also trained a lot of artists to aim their whole career at the internet, even though the internet is the worst place to build the kind of trust that turns strangers into regulars.

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