The concerts will be subsidized by the Department of Culture

The Department of Culture will subsidize the concerts in Spain. Across the National Institute of the Scenic Arts and of the Music (Inaem), the department will destine generous money quantities to impel the business of the live music with tours along the whole Peninsula.

With this measurement one tries to support the musician from the flank that supposedly it has more bulging and from which the artists obtain more income. Although it is not a coincidence that this initiative arises right now, time after the famous draft of Law of Sustainable Economy, which caused the fuss on behalf of the musical sector and of Internet.

The proposal of the Inaem to be bases in a proposition not of law that will obtain the funds of the General Budgets of the State. The first game has been this year of 500.000 euros with the target of, in words of Félix Palomero, responsible for the Inaem:

To reinforce the live music is the only exit for many artists.

From the Department of Culture “the current musician“ thinks about how to rest and for it they have already passed, like the creation of the National Award, which Joan Manuel Serrat received in his first edition.

The decision has taken in common between the Inaem, the General Society of Authors (SGAE), the State Association of Rooms of Live music, the Platform of Associations of Live music and the Society of Artists, Interpreters and Performers (AIE).

From the department, in Palomero words, these conditions put themselves:

Hirings with all the legal requisites to encourage the professionalization. Till now not always the things have been done severely in this sense.

At the same time, the process of recording and later publication also turns out to be reflected in the project, since the discs are considered to be by some the promotional tool to manage those direct. A theory that harms the good musician.

The difficult point of this proposition not of law centers on who will receive the helps. From the Platform of the Associations of Live music one looks for the support to the least well-known, as the Association of Rooms of Live music (representative of 200 enclosures of the almost 300 that exist in Spain).

But what will be the criteria to measure these authorizations? For me, it is the point most difficult to clarify and on which I do not rely until it does not see it put in action and with results. Will the everlasting ones take it? Really will the smallest artists go out benefited? And the public? Will the earnings go down, the quality of the rooms will improve...? There are so many questions that for the time being do not have answers that it is complicated to throw hypothesis.

What yes I realize well is that it is a crafty maneuver on the part of the Government to clean a little his image after the last blunders. I hope that this time should work and we should go out all beneficiaries, since the live music is a cultural heritage of the first level.

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