Coachella Production Companies Re-Direct Attention to Providing Aid During COVID-19

Although most of the music industry has taken a hit right now, with estimated losses in the scope of 10-20 billion, many production companies have rapidly adapted to new demands. Choura Events CEO & founder Ryan Choura reallocated his company’s mission and force, from building Coachella to building triage tents for potential Coronavirus patients in Los Angeles, California. Not only did Choura salvage hundreds of jobs, making sure to keep his employees working during this subsequent financial crisis, but he also became part of LA’s galvanization against COVID-19. “We pivoted so fast to being a rapid-response disaster relief team. If I didn’t know how to do Coachella, I couldn’t do this hospital,” commented Ryan Choura.

Amazingly, Choura Events wasn’t the only entity to pitch in during this time of need. Gallagher Staging, the L.A. firm slotted to build Coachella’s 2020 main stage, also began impromptu hospital construction, and the L.A./Chicago-based company Upstaging started crafting face-masks and protective shields with plans to disseminate them to elderly homes, prisons, and hospitals. In the wake of financial turmoil, job displacement, and disease, the music industry saves the world yet again in unforeseen, innovative ways.

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Saracha

Heralding from sunny South Florida, I am a proud Florida Woman. In my free time, I surf the swamp, wrangle gators, open fan mail, and tend to my pets. In the wild, I’m most often spotted at immersive art spaces, step tappin’ in a shadowed corner of the club, hater blockerz on, totally incognito as your resident EDM spice girl. Although I generally tout my spicy side, if there’s one thing I’d love to impress upon the world, it would be this: it’s not a waste to give love to those who do not deserve it – it’s a gift. The world would be a better place if we gave, in kindness and in mercy, to those who need it most with no expectation in return.

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