What a surreal feeling. WE DID IT 🎉
To our community who contacted representatives, posted on socials, encouraged family, friends, strangers to do the same, for using your voice - WE THANK YOU 🙏
To everyone at NIVA - National Independent Venue Association, we are incredibly grateful for your tireless efforts to get this done. Cheers to you! And cheers to helping all independent venues & promoters #SaveOurStages🤘♥️
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The Save Our Stages Act just passed as part of the COVID-19 Relief Bill! Thank you for helping to #SaveOurStages! Our gratitude extends to Sen. @JohnCornyn (R-TX) and Sen. @AmyKlobuchar (D-MN) in the Senate, @RepPeterWelch (D-VT) and @RepRWilliams (R-TX) in the House, leader @SenSchumer (D-NY), and 230 bipartisan cosponsors in Congress.
And another big thank you to Sen. @MarcoRubioFLA (R-FL), @SenatorCardin (D-MD), @Rep_Velazquez (D-NY), and @RepSteveChabot (R-OH) of the Senate and House Small Business Committees for their commitment to helping our industry and other various small businesses.
The Save Our Stages Act will provide emergency relief to independent venues and promoters which have been devastated by the pandemic’s shutdown. Read NIVA's full statement and thanks at nivassoc.org/statements.
