Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Save Our Stages Act — sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the Senate, Rep.
Peter Welch (D-VT) and Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) in the House and championed by Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with 230 bipartisan cosponsors in Congress — passed late Monday night as part of the government’s larger COVID-19 Relief Bill.
The act will bring approximately $10 billion in relief to America’s independent concert venues — not the ones owned by public or large companies — that have been mostly shuttered by the pandemic since mid-March.While the act is not a cure-all, it provides much-needed relief to venues, most of which haven’t received federal aid since PPP loans back in the spring (if.
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