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October 6, 2020
August 11, 2020
San Francisco Travel Association
Every music venue is part of a community’s cultural fabric and these venues help make San Francisco a unique, vibrant world-class city. Our city’s music venues face the serious threat of shutting down permanently. On behalf of San Francisco Travel Association, I urge you to support these crucial legislation to provide relief to our independent music venues to make it through this pandemic.
August 7, 2020
Independent venues and performing arts organizations are economic multipliers, community builders, and beloved institutions that are at the heart of Tucson’s cultural and economic fabric. The devastation of these venues closing permanently would also impact the entire music economy and cultural ecosystem in America. We are respectfully asking you to support and cosponsor S. 4258, the Save Our Stages Act and S. 3814/H.R. 7481, the RESTART Act.
August 5, 2020
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce
Independent venues, including several true jewels in the Wichita region, provide entertainment, culture, and economic activity in our communities. If our venues close permanently, this would negatively impact not only our economy but also our quality of place in the Wichita region. I urge you to support the Save Our Stages Act or similar legislation to help these venues survive.
August 4, 2020
On behalf of the arts and entertainment industries in Louisville, and specifically Kentucky Performing Arts, GLI supports inclusion of the Save our Stages Act (SOS) in the COVID relief bill. This proposal is specific to the arts and entertainment industry - an industry vital to Louisville's economic vitality. GLI also supports the RESTART Act, which would create more flexibility in the Paycheck Protection Program for businesses that have been hit the hardest by the pandemic.
July 31, 2020
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Senator Harris, and Senator Wiener: Every music venue is part of the cultural fabric of live music, a gift that is a big part of what makes San Francisco such a great city. Right now our City’s music venues are facing an existential crisis. We urge your support of S. 4258/H.R. 7806, the Save Our Stages Act, introduced by Senators Cornyn and Klobuchar, and S. 3814/H.R. 7481, the RESTART Act.
July 30, 2020
Dear Senator Rubio:
On behalf of Florida-based Universal Music Group Latin America, Warner Music Latin America, and Sony Music Latin, and the many Latin artists and musicians who call Florida home, we are writing to ask for your support on S. 4258, the Save Our Stages Act, introduced by Senators Cornyn and Klobuchar.
July 27, 2020
The City of Kalamazoo is writing today in support of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and is asking you to please support and cosponsor S. 4258, the Save Our Stages Act introduced by Senators Cornyn and Klobuchar and S. 3814/H.R. 7481, the RESTART Act, introduced by Senators Young and Bennet in the Senate and Representatives Golden and Kelly in the House, both of which would ensure the survival of independent venues across the nation.
July 23, 2020
Dear Senator Baldwin, Senator Johnson, Congressman Kind:
I am writing to urge your support of the inclusion of direct assistance to the live entertainment industry in the next round of federal COVID-19 economic recovery legislation. The RESTART Act (S.3814) is the first and only bipartisan legislation to provide relief for small and midsized live entertainment businesses through the rest of the year. This legislation is imperative to the live entertainment industry, which has been particularly devastated by the pandemic, due to the need of public support to ensure its long-term survival.
July 23, 2020
Dear Senator Baldwin, Senator Johnson: The RESTART Act, S.3814 adds flexibility to the Paycheck Protection Program for hospitality and entertainment organizations, and the Save Our Stages Act, S. 4258 would provide direct support to small music venues for the next six months. As the Senate considers makes decisions over the coming days about the next phase of federal relief efforts, we encourage consideration and incorporation of the provisions of these bills in the final legislation.
July 23, 2020
To the Honorable Senators Peters and Stabenow: Please accept this letters of support of the efforts of NIVA to ensure the survival of the independent live music venues are the backbone of the music industry and are vital economic and cultural driver for our local community. NIVA’s request for consideration for the Save Our Stages Act and RESTART Act will help ensure their survival through this unprecedented crisis.
July 14, 2020
I write to you today on behalf of the myriad local businesses that have been devastated by COVID-19 to request your support for the RESTART Act, which would provide a crucial injection of aid and flexibility to Maryland’s most vulnerable businesses because they are entirely shuttered, with no revenue, all of their overhead and no visibility into when they can return to normal operations.
July 8, 2020
Some of our hardest-hit businesses, such as music venues who face some of the most uncertainty in reopening and exorbitant overhead costs, are still scrambling to stay afloat. Maryland’s businesses have been resilient and determined amidst this public health and economic crisis, but creative adaptations to their business models can only go so far and many are in desperate need of government relief.
July 2, 2020
Last year, we welcomed 17,000 people through our doors. We regularly partner with our local restaurants, bars, and hotels because we know if you want people to drive two hours to see your show, you need to help them find a place to stay and eat. These partnerships result in an economic impact of almost $1,000,000 annually to our rural community.
June 26, 2020
American Federation of Musicians, Local 99
On a day-to-day basis, we directly represent our Local 99 membership, but often, and certainly right now, we work on behalf of the entire music community, a group that has been hit especially hard by COVID-19. All facets of the live music/venue realm of the music infrastructure and economy depend on each other.
June 23, 2020
Nearby restaurants, retail, and other businesses are lifted by the presence of these economic anchors such as in the Mississippi Street, Hollywood, and Alberta Street developments. Venues employ a lot of people and are essential to Oregon's long-term recovery. Please vote to support these venues when you have the opportunity.
June 17, 2020
Oregon is unique in that every one of the 77 venues in the state is independently owned and there are no outside corporate interests. These businesses, both for-profit and nonprofit, are "dedicated" institutions: their entire income derives from ticketed events. Supporting businesses like these venues will be crucial as local communities begin to recover.
May 18, 2020
Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation
We are proud of the entertainment and arts community businesses that the Eau Claire area has cultivated over the years. We feel that this industry is essential to our economy and, with your help, look forward to the day that we can enthusiastically reopen safely.
May 13, 2020
As a tourism destination that touts its musical heritage and authentic culture as one of our strongest draws to visitors, we are very interested in jump-starting those significant tourism events and attractions, when it is safe, to bring visitors back to discover Mississippi’s sense-of-place.
May 13, 2020
Explore Asheville is extremely proud of our area's vibrant music and entertainment history and exciting future as a music tourism destination city. We appreciate your support in ensuring that this important draw to Asheville survives, so they can again attract visitors to share the unique, authentic Asheville experience.
May 6, 2020
As you know, communities across Michigan, and particularly in our vibrant urban centers, rely on bustling sports and entertainment venues, theaters, and restaurants to support our local economy. These businesses have been most directly impacted by efforts to control the spread of COVID-19.
May 6, 2020
Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce
The Eau Claire area has in recent years undergone a dramatic economic resurgence, in no small part due to its growing reputation for culture and the performing arts. Taking action soon will help to ensure that these vital parts of our communities’ economic and cultural fabric survive as cities across the nation emerge from the crisis.
May 5, 2020
Mayor Rosalynn Bliss, City of Grand Rapids
Please accept this letter of support of the efforts of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) to ensure the survival of the independent music industry in the United States.
May 1, 2020
We appreciate your support in ensuring that Wisconsin’s creative businesses and workers move through the pandemic towards economic and community strength so that we can again welcome visitors to share in our unique Wisconsin experience.
May 2020
We, at Visit Eau Claire, not only support the request from the NIVA to extend and amend the PPP program to address the unique needs of these venues, but can’t imagine how the hospitality and tourism markets can recover wholly without them.
April 30, 2020
Experience Grand Rapids herby supports the efforts of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is taking to ensure the survival of the independent music industry in the United States.
April 29, 2020
On behalf of my colleagues on the City Council of the City of West Hollywood, the City's residents and business owners, I would like to convey our support for the efforts that NIVA is taking to ensure the survival of the independent music industry in the United States.
April 29, 2020
West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
Independent live music venues are the backbone of the music industry and are a vital economic and cultural driver for our local community. Due to bans on social gathering, they were the first to close, and will be the last to re-open.