{"id":443335,"date":"2025-09-22T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443335\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:14:18","slug":"germany-to-get-grassroots-live-fund-via-a-voluntary-ticket-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/443335\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany to get grassroots live fund via a voluntary ticket levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest country trying to protect its grassroots music venues and the people who work in them is Germany. An initiative called the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/livemusicfund.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Live Music Fund<\/a>\u2019 will launch at the start of 2026, described as \u201ca voluntary solidarity fund \u2013\u00a0from the industry, for the industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That means a mixture of donations from ticket sales and money from the industry for a fund that will promote cultural diversity in live music \u2013\u00a0\u201cat the grassroots level, among young people, at risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The fund will focus on three areas in particular: grants for small and independent venues; funds to support \u201closs-making newcomer shows\u201d for emerging talent; and projects around inclusion, sustainability, education and visibility.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been launched by the LiveKultur federal foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Live Music Fund is a voluntary industry model that assumes responsibility before legislators are required to do so,\u201d said LiveKomm MD and LiveKultur advisory-board member Christian Ordon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven political developments, we need an autonomous and independent funding tool that is funded by the industry, not the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest country trying to protect its grassroots music venues and the people who work in them is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,7413],"class_list":{"0":"post-443335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-live-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248133847551475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}