Derek Drye strummed his guitar and looked into the camera.
“Are we live?” said Katelyn Drye, his wife and the other half of the country music duo, The Dryes, from the couch in their Nashville home.
“I don’t know … there we go.”
“Are we live?” she asked again.
“Yea,” he said. “We did it. Awesome. All right, let’s get some people connected here.”
“Thank you, Fox 8, for joining us and putting this on your page.”
He took a sip of his bourbon, she took a sip of her tequila soda, and the two started their first song, “Life is Crazy.”
“Anything you wanna say?” Derek Drye asked his wife.
“I would just dedicate it to right now, all the crazy things happening,” she said.
The Dryes played the concert from their home, and WGHP in High Point, North Carolina, livestreamed it online and on Facebook. The hourlong concert was part of a Home Concert Series the station created to bring music to people and help spread the work of local musicians who aren’t out playing gigs right now.
“We are doing a lot of positive stories to balance out the gloom and doom,” emailed Stephanie Doyle, executive producer of digital media.
This is something any local newsroom could do along with local musicians and bands. Two more ideas to borrow from WGHP: A small business spotlight and a feature highlighting local people who are making a difference right now as their community deals with the coronavirus.
Other than one summer in high school, I’ve never listened to much country music, but I listened to every minute of this Home Concert while writing today’s roundup on how local newsrooms are covering the coronavirus and the resources that can help them do it. (The “Free Falling” cover is particularly good.)
Like The Dryes said, life is crazy.
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