CHICAGO — Time flies but music endures. A couple of weeks ago I could hear the voice of the late piano bar wizard Buddy Charles and he was saying, “There is something primitive about being close to live music. What makes it work is that people are inherently eager for intimacy.”
It’s been a tough couple of years for those who make and enjoy live music, the world battered and hushed by the pandemic. It has been especially disturbing for Anne and Mark Burnell.
“We were crushed,” says Mark. “Just months into the pandemic we lost my mom and three months later Anne’s mom died. We were not even able to say proper goodbyes. It was devastating.”
