Many significant organizations
and companies within the music industry have submitted a joint letter to
congress on behalf of the music industry asking Congress to please include the
music industry in any future relief packages, as the music industry has been
uniquely and significantly impacted as the result of government mandates
related to the Coronavirus pandemic. One of the organizations that
participated in this joint letter was the Southern Gospel Music Guild.
“The SGMG actively looks for
ways to advocate for the Southern Gospel Music industry, and we were glad to
sign on to this offer petitioning Congress for relief,” states Clarke Beasley,
President of the Southern Gospel Music Guild. “Never in the history
Gospel Music, as it is known today, has the industry faced a calamity of this
scale and scope, and we hope our voice added to others will compel Congress to
act in order to preserve our industry and our genre of music.”
You
may a view a copy of the letter HERE, and the Southern
Gospel Music Guild asks for professionals within the Southern Gospel Music
industry to petition their representatives to support this relief effort.