For many music professionals, touring is a love-hate relationship. Live shows and travel are a chance to bring music directly to fans, but it can also be mentally, physically, and financially draining for music professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic and global supply chain issues have made touring more costly, more unpredictable, and for some music professionals, far less desirable. However, the pandemic has also opened the door to more candid conversations about the difficulties of touring, including several high-visibility artists speaking openly about their decisions to cancel tours.​

Resilience on the Road is a living resource to foster and sustain mental and physical wellness among music professionals on the road. MusiCares believes that fostering resilience on the road requires four core elements: access to resources and information to make informed choices about physical and mental wellness; affordable and timely mental health support; accessible and high-quality medical and physical wellness; and an underpinning of an empathetic and compassionate community on tour.