Mackay venue shares in $2.5m of live music grants
Premium Content Subscriber only A Mackay region hotel has scored a share in $2.5m of grants to reactive live music across Australian pubs, clubs and theatres. HFG Hotels received $41,154 in round two of the $20m Live Music Australia Program towards its Seabreeze Hotel at 72 Pacific Esplanade, Slade Point. The grant was one of 83 awarded across the nation to support live music programming at more than 100 venues. A statement from Cities and the Arts Minister Paul Fletcher said it would develop the hotel into an “independent, original band venue supporting local artists and national tourin...