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New York Music Month’s ‘Extended Play’ 2021 Schedule Unveiled by Mayor’s Office

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNew York Music Month has become a city institution over the past four years, but for its 2021 iteration, New York Music Months would be a more appropriate title: The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) announces that this year, the series will become “New York Music Month Extended Play,” a six-month virtual edition of the program, launching January 11, 2021 and wrapping June 30, 2021.

Speakers include 300 Entertainment cofounder Kevin Liles, Grammy-winning engineer Emily Lazar and dozens more.The revised program and many of its virtual events are in response to the pandemic that has shut down night life and deeply impacted the lives of so many musicians and music professionals.

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