Local Musicians Find Solidarity Performing At George Floyd Square Every Week

By Caroline Cummings, CBS Minnesota

October 4, 2022

On any given Monday, there's a community concert at the corner of 38th and Chicago.

A group of local musicians playing saxophone, trumpet, drums and more gather at the site of what once was a Speedway gas station across from where George Floyd was killed more than two years ago. Its mission is to support the community and provide healing to a place marked by painful memories.

"We saw early on where there were so many people who saw George Floyd's murder and said, "what do I do? I don't know what to do,'" said Butchy Austin, a local musician and founding member of Brass Solidarity. "But a lot of us as musicians felt we could use our art and use our gifts as an offering to this space and to the movement."

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