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SF Music Week Promotes Local Industry as Economic Engine

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At the moment New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles are the cities where music making happens. But San Francisco hopes to add itself to that list. To that end, last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced San Francisco Music Week — which coincides with the Noise Pop Festival and includes live performances, workshops, and talks from industry insiders about how to reinvigorate the local music scene. We’ll talk to music makers and shakers about how the city can support live music and how the music scene could help revive the city’s economy. Guests: Nastia Voynovskaya, editor and reporter, KQED Arts Jordan Kurland, co-owner and producer, Noise Pop Industries, which organizes the Noise Pop Festival; co-founder and partner, Brilliant Corner Artists Management Laline St. Juste, musician, producer and solo artist, sings with the band The Seshen; founder, 7000 Coils, the independent record label P-Lo Paolo Rodriguez, musician and producer, His latest album is "For the Soil" Tina Davis, president, Empire, an independent record label based in San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. From KQED.

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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

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At the moment, New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles are really the cities where music making happens. But San Francisco hopes to add itself to that list. To that end,

1:36.6

last month Mayor Daniel Lurie announced San Francisco Music Week, which coincides with the

1:42.4

Noise Pop Festival and includes live performances,

1:45.6

workshops, and talks from industry insiders about how to reinvigorate the local music scene.

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This morning, we'll talk to music makers about how the city can support live music

1:56.3

and how the music scene can help revive the city's economy.

1:59.8

That's all coming up next, right after this news.

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Alexis Madrigal here.

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