Steven Severin, co-owner of Neumos in Seattle, says indie venues have until July 4 to try to get government help before many more close their doors permanently.
This is an interesting week because it is literally a lull between the storms. [The Washington Nightlife Music Association] got our fiscal sponsor [for the non-profit we are establishing]. We are signing contracts as we speak. We had a choice between two different organizations and we finally decided yesterday who we are going with. We are creating our bylaws for the organization. So that is basically done.
We are working on coming up with things to change within our industry and presenting a letter to our whole group to try to get everybody to sign off on. We are looking at what we’re doing going forward to be more equitable as far as hiring practices and stage performers, anything to do with our industry that we can do to change things.I was talking with somebody and they were talking about how 25% of their staff is black.
I have been in the music industry for 20 some years and one of the things we just talked about is that when we all started, there were hardly any women in the music industry. I was on a call with the NIVA [National Independent Venue Alliance] folks and scrolling through the 10 pages of people who are on the call and it’s almost half women. That didn’t happen overnight. It took a long time and it took some intention to do that.
It’s tough. If I wasn’t so busy trying to work and save everything, I am sure I would be in a massive heap of depression. I haven’t slowed down enough to worry about anything because I’m trying to have my eye on the prize and we’re going to save the world or at least the venues.
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