BBC News
By Max Matza
image captionWichita's Wave, which opened in 2018, has been shuttered since March
Arts and music venues across the US have been hard hit by the pandemic. Can $15bn in new relief funds help them survive?
"It's heart-breaking and it's terrifying," says Adam Hartke, who co-owns two music venues in Wichita, Kansas, that have been closed since the first wave of pandemic lockdowns in March.
"We're out of business. We've done nothing. There was a point where we were thinking of not ever reopening," says Paul Rizzo, the owner of The Bitter End in New York City's Greenwich Village, which has been shut for the past nine months and would be extinct if not for an understanding reached with the landlords.