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Indie Venues Grow Desperate as #SaveOurStages Grant Applications Move Slowly Through SBA

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe struggle that independent music venues have been undergoing for the past 14 months has gone on for so long that even supporters have begun to grow numb to it — but the reality is that the independent concert venues that up-and-coming musicians depend on keep seeing federal relief move farther and farther away.

Now, the soonest the most desperate of them might receive a relief check is late this month, five months after the $16 billion Save Our Stages act was passed into law.It took eight months of intense lobbying to get Save Our Stages passed, then another four months for the Small Business Administration to launch its Shuttered Venues Operators Grant website, through which venues must apply for federal.

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