A Thriving Music Scene
The Detroit music scene. The Brooklyn music scene. The Lansing music scene. The Chicago Roscoe Village music scene. The Berkley, DIY, underground punk scene…
In the music business, you hear the word “scene” a lot. And we often wonder how we can help or create a thriving music scene in our own areas.
But maybe one way to help a music scene is to stop calling it a scene.
Isolating music into a “scene” ignores its larger role. Music happens in bars, open mics, coffeehouses, museums, block parties, house shows, basement parties, porch jams, classrooms, charity events, Internet videos. The music scene is a part of a larger scene.
That scene is called a your community.
Musicians and artists need to be a part of their community to thrive. If we focus on a “scene,” we might be missing out what else is going on around us.
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