A launch event for Yes We Can, which encourages music venues to open their doors for community outreach, took place at The Smokehouse, Ipswich, on December 2.
Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 2:57 PM click to enlarge Jim Cohen A sign on Detroit s Majestic Theatre marks one year without live music due to the pandemic.
Well, it s about
frigging time. Though it may be a hot minute before we will see the Motor City s lush live entertainment landscape return to “normal,” a substantial handful of independent Michigan venues, performance spaces, promotors, and clubs just received some major pandemic relief funds, Recipients of the Michigan Stages Survival Grant program were announced Thursday, which awarded businesses and entities with relief grants totaling $3.4 million as administered by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. But these venues, and those that did not
Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney s Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, his legislative aide is hopeful that beleaguered venues can start getting help next month.
Haney is trying to identify $1.5 million that can be used for the fund, according to a news release from his office. I am hopeful that we will be able to allocate the money and get the fund up and running by the end of March, Honey Mahogany, a queer nonbinary trans person who is the chief legislative aide for Haney, stated to the Bay Area Reporter. That is just a guess, it could happen sooner.