“Sleep is so crucial and it’s one of the things that is the hardest to find when you’re on the road,” Keys said.
For one show, she said, she drove 14 hours to get from Santa Fe, N.M., to Austin, Texas. “I can go play a bar show for two or three hours and make twice that.”Ī typical day on tour, Keys said, revolves around sleep: Going to bed late, waking up early, and then driving to the next city. Keys said that she only recently started making money off of Spotify streams for some of her songs. “For local bands, that’s our main source of income, playing shows,” Keys said.
“ one of the bravest things an artist can do,” Keys said, noting that it’s not just a choice musicians make for themselves, but also for the hundreds of crew members and freelance workers in each city, relying on the tour for income. A ‘delicate balance’ for local musiciansįor local artists, Keys said, canceling shows - or an entire tour - is “unfathomable.” In 2016, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trade publication Billboard estimated that the top-earning artists in the world make 75% of their money from touring. Money is a major consideration when canceling a tour, because the bulk of an artist’s income comes through touring and merchandise sales. The first round of results, released in February 2021, found that 26% of respondents reported experiencing “moderate to severe levels of depression,” but 53.5% of those same respondents said they didn’t get help because they “could not afford it.” Now performed annually, the survey consists of 61 questions to better understand how they can help musicians when it comes to “well-being and mental health.” In 2020, MusiCares, a nonprofit arm of the Recording Academy (the Grammy people) that musicians can turn to for all kinds of help, launched the “Wellness in Music” survey. (Jordan Strauss | The Associated Press) Singer Shawn Mendes, seen here at the Grammys in 2019, canceled his 2022 summer tour, including a stop at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City, saying he needed to "take the time I've never taken personally, to ground myself and come back stronger." … I need to take the time I’ve never taken personally, to ground myself and come back stronger.” Mendes also mentioned the pandemic, adding that “the reality was I was not at all ready for how difficult touring would be after this time away. Mendes was scheduled to perform at Salt Lake City’s Vivint Smart Home Arena on Sept. On July 27, pop singer Shawn Mendes told his fans, via his Instagram account, that he was canceling his concert dates in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. “As amazing as it has been singing and dancing with you every night, the toll of life on the road has finally reached its breaking point.” “After being off the last couple of years due to the pandemic, we were excited to hit the ground running with touring,” lead singer Ela Melo wrote in a statement, posted on the band’s social media accounts. Lead singer Ela Melo wrote on social media that "the toll of life on the road has finally reached its breaking point." (Elektra Records) Alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise canceled its summer tour, including the opening night of Salt Lake City's Twilight Concert Series at the Gallivan Center on July 14, 2022. That included a concert that night at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center, the opening show of the Twilight Concert Series. On July 14, the alt-rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise announced it was canceling its summer U.S. tours that had been scheduled to stop in Utah - with the artists in both cases citing their mental health, and the struggles on the road. In recent weeks, two nationally known music acts canceled U.S. The strains from touring, she said, can affect an artist’s mental health. Keys started touring eight years ago, playing “everything from bars to restaurants to brewpubs to haunted bars, music festivals and everything in between.” she said. You can’t fully relax when you’re preparing for an upcoming show.” “It’s not just a 9-to-5,” said Keys, who has been playing professionally for the last 12 years, both as a solo artist and fronting her own band, Talia Keys and The Love. Being a working musician isn’t a typical job, said Utah musician Talia Keys - and the strain on one’s mental health isn’t typical, either.
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