Reacting to the Straight “Vancouver’s scrappy music scene”
Nerding out in search of a relevant, substantive question via yesterday’s Georgia Straight piece on local artists and venues
Today, I bring to your attention this article from yesterday by Angela Vannatter in the Georgia Straight:
Angela Vannatter
I have a lot of time for Vannatter, who's somewhat younger than me. Despite not knowing her personally, I feel kinship with her work, especially her YVR Concerts project on TikTok and Instagram; before that, I noticed her Twenty Something Podcast when looking for local people who were already in the game I was trying to enter. Under YVR Concerts, she co-presented the latest show in the long-running Root Dwellers concert series last Friday.
I'm not coming to you with a critique of the article per se, rather I'm thinking through it via our lens, being in the same city but in different venues, playing by different rules. I want to uncover some relevant questions. But heck, anytime someone gets paid to write 1,000 words for a known publication about what's actually happening here, I'm obligated to pay close attention – no matter how much I agree or disagree with the points.
