I bring this up here, because Fat Freddy's Drop played one of the best live band sets at DEMF, and I know they have a lot of friends in the Detroit scene.
When you think about Detroit's relationship with music, it's always been welcoming and enthusiastic about great music no matter where it comes from. It's a sign of how long the 313 list has been running that there are more obituaries than there were in the 1990s. It was a shock to the people on the list when Laura Gavoor died, because the Detroit scene was relatively young. We all getting old, and it's important to look forward, but music and culture are embedded in history. When we lose people we need to mourn, but also celebrate their contributions. https://selectedworks.substack.com/p/remembering-mu
