Sound Diplomacy

You know, it was a basically we were the first city in North America, actually, to to commission a comprehensive music audit.

And there was a team of economists called Sound Diplomacy that's based in the UK, where a gentleman named Shane Shapiro kind of is the lead of that company came in and.

You know, we kind of started with city leadership.

You know, Shane Davis, who oversees our economic development department, really, really just was passionate about like he had a hunch that like Hunstall was ready for an amphitheater.

You have to kind of justify and find out like before you kind of commit taxpayer dollars to things.

And so he was really passionate about that.

He found Sound Diplomacy, commissioned them to kind of dive into our music sector for a year and just kind of paint a picture of where we currently are.

And then like what opportunities could arise from a from from more civic involvement.