Music execs beg Congress for a lifeline as industry fights to survive pandemic\n\n

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'Today we face an existential threat—a threat not only to our industry, but to the businesses and the city centers, large and small, that we've come to depend on.'

Dr. Jen Ashton answers viewers’ health and coronavirus questions.Entertainment venues were some of the first businesses to shut down when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March, and as music stages across the country rely on crowds to thrive, they will likely be some of the last businesses to reopen.

"I feel like I am in a pandemic-induced time war. Our downtown, like so many, has suddenly become a ghost town," said David Fay, president of the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut. "This vibrant national industry has provided an essential economic and cultural anchor for communities all across our country -- that is until March when the music stopped," he said."Today we face an existential threat, a threat not only to our industry, but to the businesses and the city centers -- large and small -- that we've come to depend on."The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip, Aug. 28, 2020, in West Hollywood, Calif.

Fay joined a group of music executives, venue owners and other leaders who are part of the music ecosystem in testifying before members of the Senate Commerce Committee to urge Congress to include relief for the music industry in aSome music venues received temporary benefits through the CARES Act and the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic, but according to industry leaders, the relief was short-lived and does not come close to offsetting the...

"We're sitting before you pleading with Congress to help those like us," Hartke said, calling on Congress to pass the Save Our Stages Act."Please don't let the music die. Please save our stages, so our small family business can survive. And maybe someday my 7-year-old son, Henry, will take over, and the music will be passed on for generations to come."A sign reads"Wear A Mask" outside the Majestic Theatre music venue in Madison, Wis., Sept. 23, 2020.

 

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Threat from fake news is number one now.

Since yall only read headlines..”Entertainment venues were some of the first businesses shut down when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March, and as music stages across the country rely on crowds to thrive, they will likely be some of the last businesses to reopen”

What the MSM doesn't say.

If you think one side of the political divide will help you and the other side won't, then you're an idiot. They wont help you, theyll only help themselves to what you've lost.

They got more money then the rest of the American people. too bad they're suffering and can't live in their Mansions anymore Get out and work for a living

Arrest violators. Dox their employers and families.

Screw the music industry let them die with the rest of us there not essential for anything.... And would be no great loss if we lost them

Don't bet on it

Vote. Encourage others to vote. Begging doesn’t work. Charity begins at home. In the next few weeks, people will start giving more to charities, as this is the time for it, and they need tax deductions.

If they can give $$ to off-colour churches, I’m thinking they should find some $$$ for music industry.

Or we could just open everything... wash your hands... dont touch your face. All this for a 99% survival. Its been turned into a case-demic. There where 45,000,000 cases of the flu in 2017. StopTheLockdowns

What did y’all think trump was put here to do

Did you guys already spend the tens of millions of dollars in royalties you stole from Black musicians? Man, that was quick. BooHoo

letitdie

Don’t count on Congress. Mitch isn’t a music fan. He prefers the screaming of children separated from their parents when he wants to relax.

95% only bad news(

🤣 biggest ever financial crash on the horizon 😱

These people need to give more not take

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