musicians dealing with cancellations

musicians dealing with cancellations

Large-scale events are being cancelled or postponed all across the state and here in lafayette due to the spread of novel coronavirus.

Just yesterday lafayette mayor- president josh guillory callied for the suspension of all public gatherings through march 15th..that means music events like downtown alive that was set for tonight - now cancelled.news 1's cassie schirm sits down with mucicians who are set to play at those events.

Cassies standup....well normally this place would be filled with people music and dancing but its completly empty due to all the cancellations with effort to stop covid 19 from spreading more across the state.

With these cancellations one after another a big group of people this is affecting is the national and local mucisians who are no longer playing and getting paid for those events.

Three different mucisians from three different areas around acadianana with different ages 24 32 and 72and three distinct different sounds all share a love for music sot sot sot and all three are feeling the impact from covid 19 making it into the state of louisiana.

Nata state that is known for its live for music and festivals.sot sotfor chris stafford his gigs keep cancelling left and right sot for major handy hes cancelling his to try to stop the spread of the virus but also for his health.

Sot and for myles migl_?- h's worried about finances sot h's even thinking of other alternatives to pass the time sot all three strike a chord understanding that these cancellations are needed but also know how important music is to acadiana.all of them say they understand the cancellation but know how important music to acadiana sot so the trio had has one message to everyone a message that i's all going to be alright here in lafayette im cassie schirm news 15... 3