"It was a really magical night and it was just there that I saw the potential," Simon says."So, I was talking to the founder [of Jake's House], I said, 'You know what the next step is?' He said, 'No.' I said, 'The next step is we got to put together a band.'""I thought that it was just very appropriate to be proud, not to hide from it but to actually be proud about it," he says.
When asked to join, Murray, who's been a percussionist since he was in 6th Grade, says he thought the band was a great idea and"a cool and a good way to show that people with autism can be successful."Everyone in the band is from the greater Toronto area — located in Canada's Ontario Province, which has logged over 66,600So when ASD's first concert was canceled earlier this year because of the pandemic, Simon says it was a really difficult time.
"Depending on where you are on the spectrum, you have a very hard time processing disappointment," he says."When you promise something, it doesn't make sense that it doesn't happen."Taking lots of social distancing precautions, ASD Band went to Metalworks Studios on September 10 and finished three songs in one day.
"I honestly wasn't even sure if you were going to get them all done, but I was actually surprised we managed to get them all done in time," Murray says. ' The band has been releasing the songs — all covers of classic pop songs — onto online streaming platforms like Spotify throughout October, Canada's Autism Awareness Month.
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