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How Hundreds Of Smaller Artists Are Still Earning A Paycheck During The Quarantine · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. With coronavirus halting large
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Speaker 1: gatherings for the time being, one of the industries that's
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Speaker 1: taken a big hit. There's live music, and while big
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Speaker 1: artists can obviously whether the storm, smaller touring artists rely
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Speaker 1: on their weekly performances to keep the lights on her struggling.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly why some quick thinking musicians and music biz
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Speaker 1: vets in New Orleans created the Sofa King Festival and
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Speaker 1: online platform to raise money for artists and industry crew
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Speaker 1: members through a series of streaming music performances from their
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Speaker 1: own couches. They've already had performances from Diplo Melissa eth Age,
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Speaker 1: who actually filled out the online submission form herself asking
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Speaker 1: to participate. Artists who need the cash can be then
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Speaker 1: mode directly by people watching, while bigger artists can choose
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Speaker 1: any charity for their choice to direct their proceeds. So
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Speaker 1: if you could use a low entertainment and you want
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Speaker 1: to help out an artist, it's at Sofa king fest
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's direct from Hollywood,