Kenny's Music

These were Kennys latest gigs, an outdoor bluegrass session with some musicians he threw together a couple of weeks prior to rehearse material, and a gig in Jamestown with his rock band "Royal Tea Service". Bluegrass is not his primary interest, but all of these musicians are longtime players who can chameleon themselves as needed to serve the venue. The bluegrass 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. The rock band is comprised of old and new friends, so through many musical styles he has been true to his inborn talent. Often Kenny performs solo,performing original material by incorporating a loop track to which he adds live harmonies and guitar or trumpet...Outside of music,he and his girlfriend Maddie have moved into his deceased fathers house, and he also cooks for a local restaurant for steady money. Anyone familar with music and 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"<