In a recent Fort Worth Report story entitled “Live music isn’t dying, music venue owners say,” Texas Music Office director Brendan Anthony said that “three closures announced within one week is likely a coincidence rather than an omen for venues in Fort Worth.” Fort Worth booking agent Brooks Kendall added, “These
We cannot wait until the day comes when we can write about something without having to acknowledge the context of the pandemic’s unprecedented effects upon the thing of which we are writing. But since the Fort Worth Weekly is not (yet) owned by Rupert Murdoch, we must report on the world as it exists and not how we
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And local venue owners and operators are hoping they, too, will stay open.
Earlier this month, the Small Business Administration (
SBA) was slated to begin processing applications for financial aid from venue owners/operators across the country whose businesses had been crushed by the pandemic. The owners/operators seeking a sliver of the
$16 billion in available federal funds as part of the
Save Our Stages Act encountered a crashed website.
The feds went to work, and the website reopened Monday for applications to Shuttered Venue Operator Grant (
SVOG) monies.
MASS owner Ryan Higgs said the process “went great,” adding that he is “relieved to have it done.”
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The Post is one of several 817 venues hoping to receive help from the feds soon.
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Local venues will be receiving some much-needed financial assistance. With the passage of the $900 billion federal stimulus package, they will receive
$19 billion along with theatrical producers or live performing arts organization operators, museum operators, motion picture theater operators, and talent representatives. The disbursement could take weeks if not months. If the monies are unleashed around the time the
COVID-19 vaccines begin to work their magic, the parties could be epic.
Lola’s Trailer Park,
MASS,
The Post, and a handful of other 817 spots and promoters are in line to receive some of that phat, phat federal largesse. To qualify, a venue or promoter must have suffered at least a