MVT goes int’l with Music Venues Alliance Austin
Music Venue Trust has set up shop in the 'live music capital of the world – Austin, Texas – which it says faces the same "core challenges" for venues as the UK
News By IQ | 9 December 2016
The UK’s Music Venue Trust (MVT) has announced the launch of Music Venues Alliance Austin, the first international chapter of its Music Venues Alliance association.
The new organisation, headed up by Rebecca Reynolds, aims to “quickly pick up the challenge of protecting, securing and improving” the Texas city’s grassroots venues.
Despite its oft-quoted status as the ‘live music capital of the world’, Austin lost more than 1,200 music-industry jobs and wiped off over US$100 million from value of its…