A lot of big ideas were hatched in those febrile first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything was suddenly about the pivot-to-digital, about being on-demand and delivered to the door.

Not all of those ideas have outlived the pandemic and Australian Digital Concert Hall could have been one of them, admits its co-founder Chris Howlett. His idea for a digital platform to showcase the work of musicians at a time when they were physically separated from their audience wasn’t cooked up with long-term thinking in mind.

“When Adele [ADCH co-founder Adele Schonhardt] and I started it, we were thinking in terms of raising maybe $10,000 for a project that would last three months,” Howlett tells Limelight. “Because obviously, the pandemic was going to be over by Easter 2020.”

Fast forward three years and Australian Digital Concert Hall has outlasted the pandemic and then some. Since its founding, ADCH has now presented more than 550 live concerts, engaged more than 3000 musicians and paid them in excess of $3m thanks to a business model that distributes the full proceeds of ticket sales to the artist.

ADCH subscribers can now access over 200 exclusive live broadcasts and a growing range of On-Demand performances, including, in...