Event Designer Bobby Garza in Austin, in a Pandemic: 'You're Hopeful Every Day That the Needle Moves a Different Direction'

As he looks ahead to reopening, event designer Bobby Garza says music industry leaders 'should be having conversations now about what happens next year.'

-- those are two of my favorite voices -- and Ta-Nehisi Coates was saying,"I didn't think I was going to say this, but I do see progress and I'm hopeful." That for me was a validation, for the first time, that there probably is tangible, demonstrative progress. The thing I always try to temper that with is"OK, that doesn't mean you take your foot off the gas.

Shifting to the pandemic, do you see any light at the end of the tunnel? Every few hours I search the word"vaccine."that suggests a vaccine could appear by the end of the year or early next year, pending a lot of things. Do you feel hopeful? If it's tangible, the people that are smartest from a business standpoint should be having conversations now about what happens next year. The Music Cities Together organization is talking to cities about how to open safely, and compiling data from not just this country but from other countries, about what those recommendations are. This idea that things will"go back to normal" -- it's folly.

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