Daman Whiteside"Independent venues are asking for an investment to secure their future, not a handout. One Chicago report found that every dollar small venues generate in ticket sales results in $12 of economic activity," the letter reads.
The 600 artists sending the letter to Congress join more than 500 other touring acts and comedians who have urged their fans to have their voices heard atto make a combined social media presence exceeding 900 million followers. So far people across America have written more than 500,000 emails asking Congress to #SaveOurStages.
The SaveOurStages campaign was started by the National Independent Venues Association, which formed to support indie venues at the onset of the COVID-19 shutdown. In just two months, NIVA has accumulated 2,000 venue and promoter members in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. "The potential collapse of the independent arm of our industry cannot be exaggerated. Indie venues are the safe places that allow artists to grow, explore, and intertwine the musical culture of their city and their artistic community with their own inner voice," said NIVA president, who is also the president of First Avenue Productions in Minneapolis, in a statement.
NIVA's plea for federal funding asserts that most independent venues will be shuttered through 2021 while the spaces continue to have to pay rents, utilities, taxes, insurance and more. While some states and jurisdictions will allow concerts to resume prior to 2021, many will be at reduced capacities which is a financially unfeasible solution for these small businesses.
Man, fuck Dave Grohl. Multi millionaire pleading with the government to give money to indie venues but he won't help himself? Doesn't he have a show to 'play past curfew' while telling stories people have heard a million times instead of playing music?
TheDickChokers Who’s going to venues during a pandemic? Anyone? A stadium show? 🙄
Don’t start now DUALIPA 😍❤️
SpiritualJudas can they also ask congress to break up ticketmaster’s monopoly & stop allowing them to charge unsubstantiated amounts of fees & trying to ruin any artist that goes around them
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gaganotify Gaga queen of pop.
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