We speak with Mark Martinez, he’s a board member and DJ with Downtown Radio and an operations manager at the Rialto. He’s a concert photographer and he’s the guy to talk to about how local musics is going to come out of this pandemic.

Today is June 6th, my name is Tom Heath and you’re listening to “Life Along the Streetcar”.

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Our intro music is by Ryanhood and we exit with music from Max Webster, “On The Road.” And today, we’re going to start the show with the some news about some late night downtown Innovation.

Post Pandemic Local Music with Downtown Radio’s Mark Martinez

Downtown is getting busier and part of the reason why is because music is coming back. You saw that Rialto and Foxx Theater both announced shows coming up later in the summer and into the fall. So we thought it’d be a good time to talk about local music and as we come out of the pandemic, what’s it likely to look like? So we sat down with Mark Martinez has this guy knows music. He knows local music. He works at the Rialto, he is a photographer of mainly music events. He has his own show, actually, couple of shows, here are Downtown Radio, he’s a board member and he really is in the know. So he sat down to talk with him about what post pandemic local music is going to look like for the artist and the technicians.