Most artists playing their own unique sounds that emerge as creative music / improvisation and composition end up at one time or another in New York City - the Big Apple - the hub of what is happening. Young musicians are given degrees in music - yet there are no places for them to perform and develop their potential - and make a living. It is time to unite in an effort to change things. There must be a place where music can be played and developed to reach its real potential, to inspire each human being.
Is that not the role of art? To inspire?
This is the reality in the world's center for culture. If America does not support its culture - the creative music, dance, visual art, and poetry, and make it available in all neighborhoods for young and old alike - this country and the city called New York will be nothing more than a dense concrete jungle.
All I see are tall buildings being built. Who will live in these buildings? Who makes the deals with the realtors? What is being done for people? Besides sky rocketing rents and price hikes?
It is time to demand space for innovative, creative arts that are exempt from market rate inflations. In every neighborhood there should be a cultural center. Instead of the golden arches of McDonalds - there should be a music/art building. The government must be told. They don’t know what human beings need to live. If they know then why do they do the things they do? It must be a calculated effort to dumb society down - to keep those things which stimulate and inspire - away from the old and young.
What I am asking is for you to do something. To come march, to demonstrate, write letters, sign petitions, to play at benefits. It is not about - give me a gig - It is about the future of the creative, innovative music and arts. If it is up to some people there will be no art in the future. It is the role of the artists to incite spiritual, political and social revolution….