Slocumb couldn’t eat

1 month ago | washingtonian.com | Rob Brunner |Slocumb couldn’t eat

Brendan Slocumb was running out of money. It was 2020, the height of the pandemic, and Slocumb, a professional violinist, had lost most of his income. Students stopped coming over for lessons; the wedding gigs had gone away overnight. Within a matter of months, he wouldn’t be able to make rent for the roach-ridden apartment in Northeast that was all he could afford even before Covid hit. At that point, he worried he’d end up homeless.