CHARLOTTE — Some Charlotte music venues are starting to play again after a year of silence during the pandemic.
They are now allowed to reopen at 30% capacity.
The Neighborhood Theatre has been closed the whole time and is trying to make up for lost income.
[Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa struggles to survive]
The last concert at the venue was March 7, 2020. The Neighborhood Theatre is in limbo, waiting on a new grant that would make up for some of its lost income.
“I think we were all hopeful that would be a matter of a month or so and now it’s drawn on,” said Gregg McCraw, president of Maxx Music, which that books shows at the hall. “It passed in December and now we’re mid-March.”
In the video at the top of this webpage, McCraw talks about his frustrations as they continue to go through the application process.
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