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Independent Venues Left in the Lurch as SBA Website Remains Broken

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter months of lobbying and public awareness campaigns, the #SaveOurStages act was passed into law on Dec.

27, promising that small venues and theaters across the U.S. would receive relief totaling $16 billion as part of the larger stimulus plan.But last Thursday, when the website through which venues could apply for relief finally opened — it  immediately crashed.

The Small Business Administration, which suffered similar problems with the first stimulus plan went into effect, has shut down the portal and given no update on when it might open again.Venues, which have been hanging by a thread waiting for relief, have to find a way to hang on even longer.A fair and equitable reopening of the Shuttered Venue.

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