Music Workers Alliance is advocating for music workers’ inclusion in a proposed grant program that could provide hundreds of millions in relief funds.
Pandemic Unemployment Assistance ended in September 2021. Shortly thereafter, touring musicians were inundated with another wave of cancellations due to the unprecedented increase in COVID-19 cases brought on by the Omicron variant.
Ribot, who is a founding member of the Music Workers Alliance, says touring during the omicron wave was like “swimming three feet ahead of a shark.” While the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and Paycheck Protection Program have helped venue owners and other live music businesses, those funds were not awarded directly to performers, touring musicians or other individual music workers. In the 2022 MWA Lost Wages Survey, 77% of respondents said they lost over 50% of their income in the last year compared to pre-pandemic levels. Music workers also felt the need to turn down touring opportunities due to the risk of cancellations and sunken costs.
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