How Austin is trying to help musicians during pandemic

Both federal and local leaders have taken recent actions in an effort to get more emergency dollars into the hands of Austin’s music community. Austin City Council passed three items last week which target different areas of the music industry. The first gets the ball rolling on an Austin Music Disaster Relief Fund grant program with a contract through MusiCares Foundation Inc. to disburse emergency dollars to musicians in Austin who have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic or the cancellation…