{"id":10653,"date":"2021-03-14T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10653"},"modified":"2021-03-14T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T16:37:42","slug":"newcastle-local-live-music-scene-to-benefit-from-citys-bumper-april-events-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/newcastle-local-live-music-scene-to-benefit-from-citys-bumper-april-events-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle local live music scene to benefit from City\u2019s bumper April events calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle is continuing its support for the live music industry with a further $20,000 injection to encourage gigs during the upcoming bumper event month of April.<br \/>\nThe second instalment of Live Music Grants follows the success of earlier this year, where incentives of up to $500 per event were provided to venues for hosting live acts during the New Annual festival.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image-Rogue-Scholar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/getattachment\/Council\/News\/Latest-News\/Newcastle-local-live-music-scene-to-benefit-from-C\/Image-Rogue-Scholar.jpg\" alt=\"Image-Rogue-Scholar.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Newcastle Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said after a successful initial program, the convergence of multiple events in April was the perfect time to bring live music back to the city.<br \/>\n\u201cCity of Newcastle is committed to a creating a vibrant city and supporting our cultural sector, and we know live music is key to achieving these goals,\u201d the Lord Mayor said.<br \/>\n\u201cDuring the New Annual festival, there were over 40 live music events at 16 venues across Newcastle because of our Live Music Grants, giving a much-needed boost to our home-grown talent and the local hospitality ecosystem needed to nurture the future Trophy Eyes, Muzzy Pep, Silverchair, Screaming Jets, Amy Vee, Raave Tapes, and Gooch Palms.<br \/>\n\u201cLive Music Grants is one of the many City of Newcastle initiatives providing support and promotion of the city\u2019s unique creative scene as part of our commitment to delivering the Live Music Strategy.<br \/>\n\u201cLive music events funded by the second-round of the program will take place between 6 and 20 April to coincide with other significant events across the city, including the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup World Tour surfing, Sailfest Regatta, Women\u2019s Rugby 7s, New Run and Newcastle Food Month.\u201d<br \/>\nNewcastle Councillor Carol Duncan said April is shaping up to be an exciting month.<br \/>\n\u201cWith an influx of visitors set to flock to Newcastle over April, we\u2019re activating the city by helping local venues to host a wide range of live music,\u201d Cr Duncan said.<br \/>\n\u201cA vibrant live music scene is vital to ensuring Newcastle continues to develop its bustling arts and culture scene, and provide a lively, diverse and safe night-time economy to benefit the entire community.<br \/>\n\u201cApril is going to be an exciting month for the city and we look forward to welcoming new and returning visitors to experience the\u00a0<em>Newcastle difference<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nLive Music Grants applications are now open and close on 22 March 2021.<br \/>\nVisit City of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/community\/grants-and-sponsorships\/live-music-grant\">Newcastle&#8217;s Grants and Sponsorship&#8217;s webpage<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Newcastle is continuing its support for the live music industry with a further $20,000 injection to encourage gigs during the upcoming bumper event month of April. The second instalment of Live Music Grants follows the success of earlier this year, where incentives of up to $500 per event were provided to venues for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/newcastle-local-live-music-scene-to-benefit-from-citys-bumper-april-events-calendar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newcastle local live music scene to benefit from City\u2019s bumper April events calendar&#8221;<\/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-10653","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\/10653","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=10653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}