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Canadians use social media to shine light on live music industry left in dark by COVID-19
Zeretzke said even though some venues have been able to reopen in some areas, the limited capacity to accommodate social distancing — something he understands and agrees with — makes it very difficult to break even on a performance.“If you have a 100-seat capacity… and 15 of those are technicians and box office staff and actors or whatever, it’s really tough to make a profit off that,” he said.“We need an economic recovery plan for our industry.”People are being asked to begin taking photos and posting them to social media once the sun sets in their region on Tuesday night.For more information, click here.–With files from Global News’ Kendra Slugoski