{"id":10149,"date":"2021-02-04T01:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:15:45","slug":"city-set-to-boost-live-music-scene-during-new-annual-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/04\/city-set-to-boost-live-music-scene-during-new-annual-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"City set to boost live music scene during New Annual festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than forty live music events are set to reinvigorate the local COVID-19-disrupted live music industry, during the inaugural New Annual festival in February.
\nCity of Newcastle is investing $20,000 into the Live Music Grant Program (LMGP), which has seen applications from local venues to host live music events across the city during the New Annual festival period between 12-\u201121 February.
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\nNewcastle Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the City looked forward to providing a significant boost to the live music events industry right across the Local Government Area (LGA) and extending support toward local artists as well as the local hospitality industry.
\n\u201cThe Live Music Grant Program is yet another initiative led by the City of Newcastle, sharply focussed on providing real support and promotion of our amazing, world-renowned live music industry and is delivering directly on key objectives of our Live Music Strategy,\u201d the Lord Mayor said.
\n\u201cA vibrant local live music scene is vital to ensuring Newcastle continues to offer a bustling arts and culture scene, and a lively, diverse and safe night-time economy.
\n\u201cWith an influx of visitors sure to flock to our local venues for the City\u2019s inaugural New Annual festival, we\u2019re very pleased to provide additionally financial support and encouragement to host live music events right across Newcastle.
\nWard 4 Councillor Matt Byrne welcomed the strong support for Newcastle\u2019s live music industry, particularly for popular venues throughout the City\u2019s suburbs.
\n\u201cThe two-pronged approach we\u2019re taking will not only provide a boost to local venues financially hit as a result of COVID-19, but also our city\u2019s local musicians and homegrown artists that rely on live music events for their livelihood,\u201d Cr Byrne said.
\n\u201cThe grant program also ensures that funding extends to venues like the Racecourse Hotel at Wallsend, as it\u2019s important that the festival atmosphere is felt right across the LGA to benefit the entire community.\u201d
\nRacecourse Hotel Manager Jeremy Lowe said the Live Music Grant Program was well received and hopes the grant will help attract New Annual visitors to his venue at Wallsend for multiple live music events held during the month.
\n\u201cWe are excited to receive this financial boost thanks to the City\u2019s grant program, which allows us to become part of the New Annual festival celebrations with the rest of the city by hosting live music events at our hotel,\u201d Mr Lowe said.
\n\u201cOur community in Wallsend is set to benefit from experiencing quality, homegrown, live entertainment.
\n\u201cTo see and hear live music performed in a hotel that you frequently patronage, it adds to the rich fabric of our community and ensures we are fostering our local talent.\u201d
\nVisit the\u00a0New Annual festival website<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for a full list of live music events and dates.
\nBOOST ARTS & CULTURE LIVE MUSIC GRANT PROGRAM RECIPIENTS:<\/strong>
\nBeach Burrito Co – Cooks Hill
\nCambridge Hotel \u2013 Newcastle West
\nJams Karaoke Bar \u2013 Newcastle West
\nMeet Restaurant \u2013 Newcastle East
\nOriental Hotel \u2013 Cooks Hill
\nRacecourse Hotel \u2013 Wallsend
\nThe Duke of Wellington \u2013 New Lambton
\nThe Exchange Hotel \u2013 Hamilton
\nThe Kent Hotel \u2013 Hamilton
\nThe Lass O\u2019Gowrie Hotel \u2013 Wickham
\nThe Lucky Hotel \u2013 Newcastle East
\nThe Mark Hotel \u2013 Lambton
\nThe Rogue Scholar \u2013 Newcastle West
\nThe Stag Inn & Hunter Hotel \u2013 Mayfield
\nWickham Park Hotel \u2013 Wickham
\nPicture caption (Left to Right): Councillor Matthew Byrne, Publican Holly Bidwell, Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes, Racecourse Hotel manager Jeremy Lowe and local musician’s Dave Javier and Gabe Argiris.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than forty live music events are set to reinvigorate the local COVID-19-disrupted live music industry, during the inaugural New Annual festival in February. City of Newcastle is investing $20,000 into the Live Music Grant Program (LMGP), which has seen applications from local venues to host live music events across the city during the New … Continue reading “City set to boost live music scene during New Annual festival”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}