WATCH: How COVID changed small, independent music venues

Correction: This video replaces a previous version that misspelled Dayna Frank's name. We regret the error.

The Atlantis, a brand new small music venue opened the summer of 2023 in Washington D.C to immense excitement. That excitement would have seemed unthinkable three years ago, when COVID shutdowns rocked live music venues across the nation. Hit the hardest were smaller, independent venues, who were already facing high costs and corporate competition.

While independent venues were able to come together to lobby congress for relief, the other challenges still remain, threatening the marketplace of live music venues that artists need to survive.

The PBS NewsHour's Tim McPhillips spoke to those behind the scenes and on stage, about a new era of cooperation to keep small, independent venues, and artists, in business.

Cover Photo by Troy Gerhardt, Courtesy of I.M.P.

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