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Theater Covid relief program opens Monday after two-week delay CNN 1 hr ago By Katie Lobosco, CNN © Heather Fulbright/CNN The Anthem, a music venue in Washington, DC, closed for the pandemic in March 2020 and has not yet reopened. The Small Business Administration will make a second attempt to open a federal emergency grant program for theaters and live music venues Monday, more than two weeks after the initial launch failed due to technical issues. The funding for what's known as the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program was approved by Congress in December as part of...

UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 11:33 am ET Reply(1) Ottobar, a Baltimore indie-rock music venue, lost 95 percent of its annual revenue when it was shut down during the pandemic. (David LaMason/Ottobar via Capitol News Service) Independent music venues continue to struggle financially to survive even as Maryland eases pandemic restrictions and vaccine accessibility increases. Tecla Tesnau, owner of Baltimore's indie-rock club Ottobar, said she remembers when she thought the pandemic was only going to last two weeks. Subscribe "It was all of a sudden, we just ran into this crazy brick wall of COVI...

Maryland music venues struggle to stay afloat Ottobar, a Baltimore indie-rock music venue, lost 95% of its annual revenue when it was shut down during the pandemic. (Photo Credit: Ottobar) By MADISON HUNT Independent music venues continue to struggle financially to survive while in the midst of Maryland’s lifted pandemic restrictions and vaccine accessibility. Tecla Tesnau, owner of Baltimore’s indie-rock club Ottobar, said she remembers when she thought the pandemic was only going to last two weeks. “It was all of a sudden, we just ran into this crazy brick wall of COVID,”  Tesnau s...

Maryland music venues struggle to stay afloat amid pandemic MADISON HUNT of Capital News Service April 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Independent music venues continue to struggle financially to survive while in the midst of Maryland’s lifted pandemic restrictions and vaccine accessibility. Tecla Tesnau, owner of Baltimore’s indie-rock club Ottobar, said she remembers when she thought the pandemic was only going to last two weeks. “It was all of a sudden, we just ran into this crazy brick wall of COVID,” Tesnau said. “We effectively went from a very successful business to zero busin...

The entrance to ONCE, which is now closed. Before the pandemic, ONCE in Somerville was known for its wild rock shows. One of its final concerts even saw the lead singer of a band then-called PowerSlut “jump off the stage and crowd surf into a rainbow unicorn inflatable kiddie pool,” says JJ Gonson, the venue’s owner. Gonson loved to host events like this at her venue every week; however as a result of the pandemic, ONCE was forced to permanently close its doors. Having lost the lease for her space, Gonson doesn’t know when she’ll be able to get back to hosting bands like PowerSlut a...