Sound & Vision: The Future of Live Music After Delays in Federal Money for Venues
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It has now been 13 months without live music in Washington State. At the end of December, 2020 the federal government passed the Save Our Stages Act which would bring in billions of dollars to help struggling independent music venues in the country. It has now been four months and indie venues have still not seen that federal money yet. The website for venues to start applying for that federal money launched and crashed on April 8th and it wasn’t until April 26 that it re-opened again. For KEXP’s