Gus Fairbairn (aka Alabaster dePlume) on the challenges of the 2020 pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is an invitation for me to respond to this pandemic with frustration, but it has allowed me the time to not spend all summer playing\u00a0festivals\u00a0and actually focus on my own creativity. It\u2019s all gold.\u00a0Go forth in the courage of your love as there is great magic there and I have no doubt that whatever we are faced with, people will continue to create. That is all we need.<\/p>Ammar Kalia, “‘Fill the room with love’: the stress-busting jazz of Alabaster dePlume”, The Guardian<\/em>, 4 November 2020, https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/nov\/04\/alabaster-deplume-interview-gus-fairbairn-jazz?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other<\/a>, accessed 5 November 2020<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gus Fairbairn (aka Alabaster dePlume) on the challenges of the 2020 pandemic: There is an invitation for me to respond to this pandemic with frustration, but it has allowed me the time to not spend all summer playing\u00a0festivals\u00a0and actually focus on my own creativity. It\u2019s all gold.\u00a0Go forth in the courage of your love as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1540,1539],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-creative-process","tag-alabaster-deplume","tag-gus-fairbairn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}