Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants $16 Billion in the balance Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: Wick and The Tricks at Lemonad(e) Park (Courtesy | Todd Zimmer) On a Friday night in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, comfortably distanced members of the crowd at Lemonad(e) Park tapped their toes and took in an evening of in-person live music. Then, the skies opened up. The night’s headliner, a local group called True Lions, didn’t even hit the stage. But if you asked a member of the medium-sized crowd shuffling to the exit in the downpour, they likely would have been happy to have seen any live music at all.