{"id":805976,"date":"2020-04-02T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976872"},"modified":"2020-04-02T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:42:26","slug":"an-uncancelled-festival-will-bring-music-to-your-home-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/an-uncancelled-festival-will-bring-music-to-your-home-every-week\/","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018Uncancelled\u2019 Festival Will Bring Music to Your Home Every Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colbie Caillat<\/a>, Waxahatchee<\/a>, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail<\/a> are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival<\/a>, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday.<\/p>\n

UnCancelled is the most recent \u2014 and one of the larger \u2014 of the online music events that have sparked up since COVID-19<\/a> put a temporary hold on the live music industry<\/a>. Some of the festival\u2019s proceeds will go to MusiCare\u2019s COVID-19 Relief Fund<\/a>, and it\u2019s partnered with Fender, who is helping with promotion and will have its own curated virtual stage for the festival. (Bandzoogle, Ari\u2019s Take and Spaceland Presents have also partnered for the event.)<\/p>\n

UnCancelled is airing via livestreaming company StageIT, with 25 independent venues curating streams through the platform simultaneously, though the festival plans to add more venues and stages. Performers will play 30 to 45-minute sets, organizers said, and over 200 other independent venues have reached out looking to take part in the festival. While the festival will commence on a weekly basis, festival co-founder Ari Herstand, a musician and writer, said the team is looking to keep the festival active as long as the pandemic stalls live touring.<\/p>\n

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Other artists on the bill include Betty Who, The Aces and Kevin Garrett. Among the venues curating for the festival are Los Angeles staple Hotel Cafe and New York\u2019s Rockwood Music Hall, along with PianoFight in San Francisco, World Cafe Live in Philadelphia and venues across the world in countries including England, Portugal, Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n

With global artists and venues, UnCancelled will be a practically 24-hour show, festival organizers say, and StageIT airs live shows without archives, meaning those looking to watch a particular act will have to tune in live, like at an in-person festival. StageIT runs on a pay-what-you-want model, so the amount of potential proceeds, and artist payout from the platform\u2019s virtual tip jar, will rely partly on viewers\u2019 own altruism.<\/p>\n

Like most livestreams that have aired in recent weeks, artists will be performing from their homes. UnCancelled will primarily be focused on singer-songwriters because of the difficulties of getting entire bands in the same room during social distancing.<\/p>\n

Herstand, along with fellow co-founders Ashley Maietta, who works in publishing for boutique label Crooked Paintings, and Andrew Leib, a manager at Red Light Management, put together the festival in 10 days. The trio were inspired after seeing Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti close down all of the city\u2019s music venues and bars as part of LA\u2019s city-wide shelter-in-place policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in a moment of shock,\u201d Herstand says of the mayor\u2019s announcement. \u201cWe started researching quickly how we could put on a collective digital music festival to support all these artists who\u2019ve lost so much. Now every day we\u2019re just working together on bringing in more venues and more artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

UnCancelled joins an extensive list of livestream<\/a> events that have aired since the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic hit the U.S. Chris Martin, John Legend, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello were a few of the many who have taken part in Global Citizen\u2019s Together At Home streaming series, and Elton John hosted iHeart Radio\u2019s Living Room Concert For America, which included Dave Grohl, Billie Joe Armstrong and Billie Eilish. That show has raised $10 million for COVID-19 relief, according to iHeart. <\/a><\/p>\n

With live music making up a large chunk of income for musicians at large, Maietta said creating more live opportunities is crucial to helping artists and local venues in particular maintain some source of revenue while mass gatherings aren\u2019t an option.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music community is one part live and one part streaming,\u201d Maietta says. \u201cAs we all know, streaming income isn\u2019t quite lucrative unless you\u2019re in the millions and millions of streams. Our goal is to reintroduce live element back into these musicians\u2019 and venues\u2019 lives to help try and sustain these closures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Colbie Caillat, Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny and Snail Mail are a few of the nearly 300 artists slated to perform in the newly announced UnCancelled Music Festival, a global digital music event that kicked off Thursday. UnCancelled is the most recent \u2014 and one of the larger \u2014 of the online music events that have sparked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 10:53:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}