"Failure to survive the crisis was never an option"

By all accounts (and on the basis of my own brief taster), last weekend's 6 Music Festival was a real success, shining a spotlight on the Welsh music scene and bringing fans to Cardiff's venues both in person and via the airwaves - a much-needed cultural and economic boost after an extremely challenging couple of years.

Buzz's Laura Fedeli recently invited the owners of four grassroots performance spaces around the country - Le Pub in Newport, the Lost Arc in Rhayader, Ty Pawb in Wrexham and the Moon in Cardiff - to explain how they managed to survive lockdown and navigate the ever-changing COVID-19 regulations. What is very clear is that without the robust support of both the Welsh Government (via the Cultural Recovery Fund) and the Music Venue Trust, the picture would have been very bleak indeed.