The Madison area’s small venues get short shrift in state grant ...
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Scott Gordon, editor and chief of Tone Madison, published an article about the recent $15,000,000 in grants to music and performing arts venues around the state from the The Wisconsin Department of Administration. About $1.5 million of that money will go to venues located in the city of Madison. However, the biggest grants will go […]
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Scott Gordon, editor and chief of Tone Madison, published an article about the recent $15,000,000 in grants to music and performing arts venues around the state from the The Wisconsin Department of Administration. About $1.5 million of that money will go to venues located in the city of Madison. However, the biggest grants will go to the city’s largest concert promoter and to venues that already receive significant public funding and/or private philanthropic support. Smaller venues that really make a local music scene tick will get relatively little, and the people who run them are getting frustrated.
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