Opinion: On musician touring visas, the United States needs to change its tune

On musician touring visas, the United States needs to change its tune

Andrew Cash is the president and CEO of the Canadian Independent Music Association.

That was to be expected then. But in the ensuing years, it has become even more costly and challenging for Canadian artists to cross the border into the United States. And in the wake of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Ottawa last month, and with Parliament set to modernize the Broadcasting Act to account for, among many things, the borderlessness of recorded music, now seems like an ideal time to start tackling this access issue for live music.

Emerging artists simply can’t afford these costs. In fact, if these fees come into effect, many artists from all over the world will have to reconsider whether it is worth spending precious resources performing in the U.S. It’s why more and more Canadian artists are considering Europe – an entire ocean away – to be an easier market to access than one that so many of us can easily drive to, even though the U.S.

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