Matt Dusk calls what happened The Tour To Nowhere.
The Toronto-based, platinum-selling jazz singer had spent eight hours driving to his concert in Sherbrooke, Que., when the COVID-19 curtain descended in mid-March 2020, wiping out performances everywhere for the foreseeable future.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Before the pandemic, there was this constant stress to be constantly building and find new territories and build touring schedules,” Dusk says. “Once all of that was gone… there was less of a need to be worried about it, and more importance to be enjoying the moment, because you don’t know if tomorrow will come.”
Now, with greying hair crowning his boyish good looks, the mid-career crooner says: “I’ll still be making music as long as I’m physically able to. Where it will land commercially I don’t even care any more. It doesn’t matter. I can’t control that, right? It’s foolish to think that we can.”Article content“I found that a lot of musicians were not really interested in creating,” he says. “Their livelihood had been basically stripped from them. And there was real doubt about the future.
“There was this justification of how great livestreams were and how great drive-in shows were… but now, as the restrictions have lifted, there is no justification anymore,” Dusk says. “Singing into a lens…. it sucks.”Article content
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