By Rambo Elliott
Leon Bridges
Fort Worth’s music industry generated more than $500 million in direct economic output and 5,584 jobs in 2016, and artists have survived COVID-19 by generating virtual content and more songs, a study commissioned by the Visit Fort Worth tourism bureau said.
But more than 80 percent of employment generated by the "music ecosystem" comes from live music, shut down by the pandemic, and the community should act aggressively to “ensure all aspects of the industry recover and grow,” preserving and expanding an important economic development building block, the study, completed by the London-based Sound Diplomacy, said.
