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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Quarter of music industry workers have had no work in EU since Brexit

Jennifer Johnston as Juno in Semele by Handel
Jennifer Johnston as Juno in Semele by Handel. The singer said Brexit was ‘quietly killing our world-class music sector’. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Almost half of UK musicians and workers in the music industry have had less work in the EU since Brexit than before it, and more than a quarter have had no EU work at all, according to a survey.

The impact of Brexit on the music sector had been devastating, said the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), which carried out the survey. Restrictions had impaired the viability of making a living as a musician, it said.

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