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Austin joins national pilot program exploring how to safely reopen music venues
Austin has signed up as a pilot city for a national effort to establish guidelines for music venues looking to reopen safely once the public health threats from the Covid-19 pandemic are lessened. Today the city will announce its partnership…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 7, 2020
With stages silent, Austin's music venues need help to stay open
In his role as spokesperson for the cluster of live music venues concentrated on Red River Street, Cody Cowan relies on a graphic visual to convey the reality of those businesses’ prospects of surviving the Covid-19 pandemic. Now fully…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 31, 2020
Music Commission looks at Black cultural district, music fund based on equity
Turning its attention to equity issues facing the city’s music and creative communities, the Music Commission plans to meet every two weeks for the foreseeable future to address those concerns. The commission voted unanimously at last week’s meeting to create a…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 13, 2020
City moving forward with improvements to Red River district
The city’s long-planned improvements to the streetscape of the Red River Cultural District will move forward through the summer with planning and budgeting for construction projects to improve the sidewalks and other features of the area. A recent city memo…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 30, 2020
Arts Commission endorses letter requesting $5M in economic relief for art nonprofits
The Austin Arts Commission voted in support of a letter from various creative sector organizations asking City Council to budget $5 million in Covid-19 disaster relief for arts-based nonprofits. The city has allocated $6.35 million in disaster relief funds to…
Music & Entertainment • By Savana Dunning • Jun 19, 2020
Music leaders eye city creation of Black Live Music Fund
The vice chair of the Music Commission has called for the city to create a Black Live Music Fund that would support the business interests of black musicians, possibly with money from the recently created Live Music Fund. In a…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jun 16, 2020
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Survey seeks data on full impact of Covid-19 on city's music economy
The city’s major music nonprofits have partnered with a national consulting firm to conduct a survey of the economic and some health impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Austin’s music community. The survey from Music Cities Together, which is also…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 27, 2020
Music Commission backs Council proposal to unlock $4.5M to aid artists, venues
The Music Commission has asked the city to protect and replenish the recently created Live Music Fund if any of it is used to help musicians and music venues impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. At a special meeting called for…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 9, 2020
City adds funding and transparency to program helping endangered creative spaces
The city is making changes to a program created to assist music venues and creative spaces facing displacement, with the primary goal of making the selection process for grant recipients more transparent. The Creative Space Assistance Program, which was fully…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 5, 2020
Music Commission seeks answers on lingering sound enforcement, 'agent of change' issues
The Music Commission has asked representatives from the Austin Police Department to attend its next meeting to discuss the delay in moving sound enforcement responsibilities from the police department to the city’s music office. At last week’s meeting, Rebecca Reynolds,…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 10, 2020
C3 Presents partnership will bring touring acts to Moody Amphitheater starting in 2021
The new Moody Amphitheater in Waterloo Park will be programmed with large touring music acts booked through local live concert giant C3 Presents and Live Nation. The Waterloo Greenway nonprofit that is steering the creation of the urban parks system…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 4, 2020
ULI panel pushes real estate partnerships to help preserve, create arts spaces
With creative businesses and artists all over the city facing displacement issues caused by rising property values, the time is coming for the local real estate and development community to find ways to mix arts and music uses into new…
