President, Maremel Institute; Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Associate Professor, Music and Entertainment Studies,; City Councilman, Glendale, CO, USA
Gigi Johnson and Storm Gloor welcomed participants and explained the origins of the Amplify Music Virtual Conference idea, which started from their canceled SXSW “Future of Music Cities” session. They then shared how the program for April 23 and 24 was expanded and the 11 Core Themes planned for the following week. They introduced the structure of this around-the-clock and around-the-world event to date, and plans to follow.
Dr. Gigi Johnson
President, Maremel Institute – https://maremel.com
Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music – https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu
Host, Innovating Music podcast – Https://innovatingmusic.org
Storm Gloor
Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
City Council, Glendale, CO, United States
About Amplify Music 2020: https://amplifymusic.org
This conference was created with 30+ organizations around the world to explore Resilience and Community Ecosystems around live music and COVID-19. It started with a pilot event on April 17, 2020 and expanded into a free 25-hour around-the-clock, around-the-world virtual gathering on Zoom.