As negotiations continue in Congress for a year-end Covid-19 relief deal, those connected to the live entertainment industry made an appeal to a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday for the urgent need of a lifeline.“We have been shut since March 13th.
We will not be open until June or July at the earliest. Zero income,” said Michael Strickland, owner of lighting company Bandit Lites. “We are all sitting dead still.”“We have been fully shut for nine months now, with no work for our employees to do.
Many, many venues are completely out of funds,” said Adam Hartke, owner of Cotillion and operating partner of WAVE, two live music venues in Wichita, KS.
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