The wonderful Linda Phillips, who founded Nuçi’s Space in Athens, was given an honorary key to the city on Saturday (Oct. 24) from Athens mayor Heidi Davison.
I’ve been lucky enough to get to know Linda, first meeting her back when Nuci’s Space was just an old car garage, gutted out but even then beautiful with her vision to create a musicians’ resource and practice space in memory of her son, Nuçii, who she lost to suicide on Thanksgiving Day in 1996.
I’m not sure how many musicians have passed through the doors since Nuçi’s opened nine years ago (the event where she was given the key was the 9th anniversary) — and we’ll never know how many have been saved from the same fate as Nuçii. But even one would be enough.
The goodness Linda has given this community through Nuçii’s Space can’t be overstated.
