Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, chief executive at music industry trade body UK Music, said event organisers needed a date for when live music could resume and also for the government to back an insurance policy in case the pandemic caused new cancellations. Ranging from Glastonbury, the world's largest greenfield festival, to events dedicated to opera, folk, rock and everything in between, live music contributed 1.3 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) directly to the British economy in 2019, UK Music said. "But actually summer is meant to be the moment where our country is going to bounce back from this pandemic," he told Reuters. "The music industry can play a huge role in that post-pandemic recovery." In a statement, Britain's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it was "working flat out" to support the live events sector.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 06, 2021 01:27 UTC