Stratford’s a music city as much as a theatre city – and this week saw music really move to centre stage in its reawakening with the start of the Stratford Summer Music festival
. All kinds of musicians will be rediscovering the fun of playing live together outdoors and indoors into September, from opera singers to percussion quartets to avant-garde ensembles.
One adjustment Manning went through long ago was from considering herself a singer-songwriter, to calling herself an artistic entrepreneur. She tries to live life as “a 100-mile artist,” focusing less on coast-to-coast tours like the ones she’s been going on since, as an 18-year-old, she opened for Burton Cummings, and more on working in her own community.
In truth, all the figuring out how to get by, following the usurpation of music sales by streaming only really helped up to a point in the pandemic. Manning still went on CERB for a couple of months – and ultimately moved out of the house she owns in Stratford and started renting it out. “Although I can’t say I survived the pandemic ‘cause I just don’t think it’s over – and I also don’t think I’ve hit the hardest time.”
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