After a year rife with isolation, paranoia and a general, cumulative sense of physical, mental and emotional unease, Long Beach Island native musician Michael Dougherty believes he and others are serving up the solution by way of live music. The solution? Connection.

“The live music connection,” he emphasized. “A true core connection.”

According to Dougherty, “Music is the binding glue that we all have within.” He elaborated, “I believe when we feel that moment of everything slipping away, and nothing seems to make sense, it’s the ‘musical glue within’…