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Independent Live Music community to gather in New Orleans for NIVA '24

Four Chord Music Fest is bigger than ever, bringing huge talent and local collabs

It’s the first year Four Chord Music Festival has expanded to two days, with an enormous lineup of talent, local collaborations, and more.

Drusky helps form national collective to bring more concerts to Pittsburgh

A local concert promoter hopes a new collective will not only bring more artists to Pittsburgh but support the musicians by offering them a new.

Pittsburgh-area music venues, theaters hamstrung by issues with Small Business Administration website

Local music venues are facing another shutdown. The Small Business Association website where venues are supposed to be able to submit an application for money is not working. The glitch is holding up federal relief money for venues and causing frustration. The Save Our Stages Act was passed as part of a covid-19 relief bill in December to help with funding for local venues. The act led to Shuttered Venue Operators Grants which were to be available to apply for on April 8. “They had major technical issues and they took it down and have been radio silent about when it will be back up to apply,” said Brian Drusky, owner of Drusky Entertainment, a Pittsburgh-based concert promoter via email. “Not one application has been filed.”

Musicians, venues still feeling pandemic closures effect