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Updated On: 12 September, 2020 07:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
Mumbai Piano Day celebrates the instrument and has taken the digital route this year
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Gary Husband
There are two sides to every coin. Yes, the pandemic has been a massive cog in the wheel of the music business. Audiences are pining for a gig like a person lost in a desert thirsts for water. Online concerts are a mere shadow of the real thing. But at the same time, the virtual medium has also opened the doors for international artistes like never before. It's made live global music more accessible. And the organisers of Mumbai Piano Day — an annual celebration of the instrument in the city — are reaping that benefit this year with a power-packed line-up of musicians all the way from Australia to the US.
Neil Banks, whose events firm Gigatainment hosts it, tells us that premier keyboards company Roland had a big hand to play in it. "It's a niche event, so getting sponsors would always be difficult earlier. That's why we mainly had Indian artistes performing. But it was much easier to get international artistes this year because we didn't have to worry about air fare and other overheads, since the event has moved online," he says.
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