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Venues shuttered because of Covid-19 got an extra boost from some key provisions tucked in the new $1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

Maybe, but it's unlikely to be business as usual, says Steve Bennett Will the Edinburgh Fringe go ahead this year? That is literally the £1billion question based on some economic analysis of the festival’s contribution to the Scottish economy. Following the news that Glastonbury is to be cancelled for a second year, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon delivered another blow to the idea of 2021 Fringe on Friday when she said: ‘If I was to stand here right now and be asked if I think large-scale events by the summer, with any certainty will go ahead, the honest answer to that would be no.’

More than a dozen MPs and over 100 event industry executives have signed a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, copying in prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to implement a Government-backed insurance scheme for festival, live music and events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good. The letter, written by DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP, follows the 5 January opening hearing of the Committee’s inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, during which festival operators emphasised the urgent need for Government support. At a cruci...

Calls for insurance scheme intensify in industry letter Thursday, 7 January 2021 A number of MPs and live event specialists have signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak in a bid to save summer events and more (Photo: Hanny Naibaho) UK - The live events industry has launched a fresh appeal for a government-backed COVID-19 insurance scheme with a letter signed by 120 sector representatives and MPs. In the letter, written by the chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight and addressed to the chancellor Rishi Sunak, the sector - which has largely been shut down since March 2020 - warns that “[w]...