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Thousands of live and non-profit music venues and theaters have gone dark since the pandemic swept across the country.
These venues have had to survive and stay afloat with little to no revenue coming in from live shows.
The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts is one of many local venues that has struggled this year.
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“It’s been extremely difficult. We were shut down in the middle of March and we furloughed a lot of our employees and we basically went dark,” said Aaron Zimmerman, VP of Programming at the Tobin Center. “It’s just really difficult to just make the numbers work and stay afloat with our capacity at about 25 or 30 percent of what we once operated out.”