Providence Sound Session July 5-11

[Rick Foster]

Lynne McCormack, the director of art, culture and tourism for the City of Providence, says that she and the other producers of SoundSession “were having some really serious discussion about whether we should move forward, just like any arts organization is having about their seasons, and having to make some really difficult decisions.”

The weeklong festival of music from around the world was affected by the economy, and McCormack says that some of the smaller corporate sponsors canceled their support for SoundSession, now in its sixth year.

But something else happened.

“There’s been a lot of rallying around the event,” McCormack says, both inside and outside City Hall. Mayor David N. Cicilline and the city provided the same budget for talent as last year, she says, and with an influx of interest from the local music community, she says this year’s SoundSession, scheduled for July 5 to 11, will end up the biggest yet.

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