A third of music-makers now considering quitting the music industry as a result of COVID says MU
completemusicupdate.comAs an assortment of COVID-19 lockdown measures go back into effect in numerous places across the UK, the Musicians’ Union has said that a third of the music-makers it recently surveyed said they are now considering abandoning their music careers entirely as a result of the financial hardship caused by the pandemic.That financial hardship is due to increase in the next month, of course, as general schemes from the UK government that provided financial support to employees and the self-employed during the initial COVID lockdown come to an end.A third of the musicians surveyed by the MU didn’t actually qualify for that support in the first place, often because they are self-employed but didn’t fit the specific definition of self-employed used.
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