Local musicians react to a list naming Dallas the No. 5 worst music city in the U.S., as well as the second-worst for live music.
, principal lecturer of vocal jazz in the UNT College of Music. Many former UNT students have had a positive experience in the gigging scene and can make a great living as a working musician.
Although it's admirable that someone is shining a light on cities that support live music, it's also a difficult thing to accurately gauge, Eckert says. Things like wages, ticket prices, percentage of working musicians and number of venues are tough to pin down. “The sheer amount of live music that you can go hear on a nightly basis is really quite impressive,” she says, “but it’s not necessarily in the traditional concert-venue type of situation.”says that based on the research’s criteria, the findings didn't seem too off-base. Young notes that cities like Austin have robust support from the local government, but overall, Dallas just doesn’t “have a real vision for the creative community as a whole.
“My hope is that Dallas as a city and owners of the infrastructure here recognize the opportunity that we have to really grow the North Dallas cultural scene, depending upon where we prioritize our investments,” he says. “There’s a lot to be done, and there’s a lot that can be done.”
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