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Austin live music venues receive $1.34M in emergency funding
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team
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Austin live music venues receive $1.34M in emergency funding
The City of Austin is providing $1.34 million in emergency funding to local live music venues impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
AUSTIN, Texas - The City of Austin is providing $1.34 million in emergency funding to local live music venues impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 67 local live music venues will receive relief grants from the city. Economic Development Department and Long Center staff worked through the holidays to get these funds to local live music venues, notes Veronica Briseño, Austin s Chief Economic Recovery Officer. We are proud that this support has benefited many cultural and economic icons in our community, and we are determined to build upon the initial grants by offering support through technical assistance and additional financial resources.
A mural optimistically titled Everything s Gonna Be Alight (painted by Sloke One and Chris Rogers and designed by Noel Waggener) that was on the front of Antone s in April. (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
Since applications opened for the Live Music Venue Preservation Fund last Friday, operators of 79 different venues have filed for assistance that could total up to $160,000 for each business.
The effort, a component of the City of Austin’s SAVES resolution, includes two phases: $20,000 of “emergency funding” and additional “enhanced funding” of up to $140,000 that would be doled out in monthly installments to qualifying venues based on a variety of factors.