France pledges €55m for live music industry
The live events sector will receive €85m, and cinemas €30m, to support them through a six-week curfew in France's biggest cities
News By IQ | 26 October 2020
The French government has pledged a further €55 million in financial support for the live music sector.
In a press conference on Thursday (22 October), France’s culture minister, Roselyne Bachelot, announced an additional €115m for the cultural industries, including €85m for live performance, in order to “safeguard the programming” of live shows, “including [those] with extremely restricted capacities” (ie with social distancing). Of that €85m, €55m is specifically for live music.
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The other €30m will go cinemas, while an emergency fund…
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