Before the pandemic, artist Alison Coté was designing 10 to 15 posters a month for local and traveling concerts. Now, most of her work is coming from quarantined musicians who are suddenly recording more.
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The F Word: Bernunzio Uptown Music is still strumming
The showroom at Bernunzio Uptown Music on East Avenue is officially closed right now, but that’s not to say owner John Bernunzio has completely shut down the operations.
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The F Word: Sound engineers are suffering
When COVID-19 struck, the infrastructure of the live music scene in Rochester collapsed like dominoes. And sound engineers who run the venues’ sound systems have become a casualty.
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The F Word: Montage Music Hall gets a much-needed push
Montage Music Hall was unable to get aid through the Payroll Protection Program, but fans of the venue are stepping up with financial support.
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The F Word: A matter of wait-and-see for Anthology
Amidst the COVID-19 shutdown, Anthology owner Phil Fitzsimmons is cautiously optimistic about concerts tentatively scheduled for late summer and beyond.
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The F Word: Filling up the Lovin’ Cup
Leslie Ward, co-owner of the Lovin’ Cup, was torn over what to do when the inevitable effects of the coronavirus pandemic set in.
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The F Word: Keeping Three Heads above water
It’s hard to keep smiling during this pandemic, but you can see the corners of Three Heads Brewing concert organizer Geoff Dale’s mouth curl up into a grin when he talks about the things he loves: beer and the Rochester music scene.
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The F Word: Abilene’s Danny Deutsch believes
Rochester-area club owners such as Abilene’s Danny Deutsch have been caught in a kind of COVID-19 limbo. As a business owner who relies on live audiences, how is he coping?
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The F Word: What’s your side hustle?
Working musicians have always had to supplement their incomes to make ends meet. But those side gigs — bartenders, servers, Uber drivers — are no longer an option.
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The F Word: For recovering alcoholics, it’s one step at a time, online
Alcoholics Anonymous members are there for one another, day or night. And in the disruptive uncertainty of now, the services and support the organization provides are needed even more.
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The F Word: Clap hands
Social distancing has gobbled up our hoorays and swallowed our hurrahs. It’s hard for a performer when there’s no way to read an audience and get the reward of applause at the end.
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The F Word: The uplifting side of live-streaming
The same internet that’s been blamed for driving a wedge between musicians and audiences may be the very thing that saves our sanity and our souls.
