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Sundrop Music and Arts Festival

#096 April 2017/Column/Dispatch

Essay: A music promoter gets back to his social-worker roots

Illustration by Marika Mirren The Everyday Activist essay by Derek Dorsey I work in the music industry. I’ve booked thousands of shows and promoted scores of festivals—and have spent an untold number of late nights watching everything from folk to hip-hop. Outside my home in Kensington, the sound of children playing down the street has

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March 29, 2017
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