Kenny's Music

This was Kennys latest gig, an outdoor bluegrass session with some musicians he threw together a couple of weeks prior to rehearse some material. Bluegrass is not their primary interest, but all of them are longtime players who can chameleon themselves as needed to serve the venue. The bass player, Addison is a decades longtime friend and accompanist who now teaches at the local music conservatory, and the fiddle player, Rachael is a local musician who performs with whomever requests her skills. Often Kenny performs solo,performing original material by incorporating a loop track to which he adds live harmonies and guitar or trumpet overlays. He also plays in a rock band comprised of old and new friends, so to his inborn talent he has been true. His girlfriend of two years Maddie, and he have moved into his deceased fathers house so he also cooks for a local bar restaurant for steady money; anyone familar with music or artists in general knows that it is extremely difficult in this society to earn a living...>"On average, online music streaming platforms pay rights holders between $0.001 and $0.015 per stream... platforms do not pay a fixed, flat rate per play. Instead, they pool their monthly revenue and distribute it based on "streamshare"—the artist's percentage of total plays on the platform. Furthermore, the gross payout goes to the rights holders (labels, distributors, publishers) first, who then take their cut before paying the artist"<