The Musician Tariff


Listening to Heather Bambrick on Jazz.fm this morning I learned that the time to process a visa application for performers has doubled and that to get an expedited visa now costs $2,800, limiting the ability of musicians to schedule tours in the US.

I have such a hard time even finding a jazz club, learning that now we can’t even get musicians just makes me even sadder.

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It wasn’t until I went off to college and was exposed to weed that I began to understand jazz. It was the opposite of a "tariff."

There is, however, the obsessional cell phone which has become one of the most pervasive psychological tariffs on human attention.

There have been "tariffs" on artists forever. You just may not be aware of them.