The music industry, full of glamorous stars and thrilling performances, can also be grueling for the musicians themselves, sometimes even with tragic consequences.

A 2024 Music Care survey revealed that over 8% of respondents within that industry had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year.

That is notably higher than the 5% rate among the general population.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports from Park City, Utah, on a side of the music

world that is starting to get more attention.

It's for our ongoing coverage of the intersection of health and arts, which is part of our Canvas series.

The Sound of Music in the Mountains, the band on stage in a gorgeous setting, a happy crowd.

In many ways, the quintessential summer music festival.

But listen to some of the stories we heard.

It feels like extreme highs and extreme lows.

I feel full gratitude and I feel extremely overwhelmed.

You need help. Without people helping me back then, especially the first year, I would not be here.

The problem that we were seeing was that we were losing music industry folks to addiction

and suicide.

People you knew.

People that I knew, yes.

The Park City Song Summit in Utah had plenty of music over three days, headline this year by bands such as Goose, and Dawes.

But here the emphasis was also on mental health and wellness, and array of alcohol-free

drinks at night, ivy drips and B-12 shots in the afternoon, yoga, meditation, and song

baths for a positive start to the morning.

Good friends, one after the other.

But things also went deeper, sometimes darker.

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