For working musician, Josh Daniel, the year 2020 looked to be the most promising to date. With a calendar full of festivals, club shows, and a few brewery gigs, he was booked solid playing the music he loves. When the Covid19 pandemic hit in March of 2020, music venues shut their doors, and his calendar was wiped clean. The singer-songwriter took to his Facebook page and pledged to his fans to play live on Facebook every day until the pandemic ended. Daniel thought life as we knew it would resume in six to eight weeks, but as the shutdown continued, he kept his word and signed on to play every single day. There’s no elaborate production team; the show is just Daniel, with an iPhone and his guitars, playing music that can best be described as a soup of roots rock, bluegrass, and soul. Dedicated fans of his Wilco-like sound began to share his live feed, and soon, a Grateful Dead-like community of several thousand followers was born. Josh Daniel fans dubbed themselves, “The Jamily.” As the pandemic lingered, loneliness and feelings of isolation became commonplace. A bright spot for Daniel was seeing how The Jamily checked on one another, starting shows with a rollcall of sorts, and watching as half dozen or so romantic connections were made – a real feat in time when we can’t safely get out to meet new people. “We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, and we mourn together when we lose loved ones. We lift each other up when we need it,” says Daniel. A scroll through the comments shows a repeated refrain, “This show has saved me for almost a year now,” said one fan with top fan status. It’s very much a mutual salvation according to Daniel. “They say I’m getting them through the pandemic, but they’re getting me through it, too.”