Allison Weiss on playing Orlando: ‘I’m not going to hide in the shadows'

Less than 24 hours after the Pulse nightclub attack, the gay singer-songwriter put on a difficult but cathartic performance just two miles awayWhile performing a solo set in Orlando, Florida on Sunday night, the singer-songwriter Allison Weiss broke the cadence of her strum and sighed before singing the lyric: “I will make it out of this alive.” It’s from a song about finding the will to carry on after heartbreak, but in a room of around 150 people who rejected terror to take ...

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