{"id":426,"date":"2022-09-12T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=426"},"modified":"2022-09-12T23:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:42:16","slug":"potential-solutions-housing-touring-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2022\/09\/12\/potential-solutions-housing-touring-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Solutions for Housing Touring Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Besides the cost of travel, the rising cost of accommodations has been a hot topic for touring musicians.<\/p>\n

The average price of hotel rooms in the U.S. is reaching $137 per night. That number is almost double in major cities like Los Angeles and Seattle.<\/p>\n

The summer festival producers and regional orchestras try and ease the costs by providing musicians with some more affordable solutions options. These usually include preferential hotel rates and some good-hearted billets willing to take them in.<\/p>\n

But with a housing crunch in centres like Toronto, New York, and San Francisco only getting worse, expecting the goodwill of festival patrons to house artists in a spare bedroom is not a long-term solution.<\/p>\n

Artist-only hotels<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Green Rooms<\/a> is a 20-room not-for-profit hotel with adjoining space geared to artist needs in London UK. Rooms are an affordable $26 per night.<\/p>\n

Baked-in housing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s new Medak Center<\/a> has decided to build its artist housing as part of the venue, saving itself hundreds of thousands of dollars in hotel costs annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cBerkeley Rep\u2019s outgoing managing director, Susie Medak, the center\u2019s namesake and the driving force behind its construction, remembers when housing out-of-town artists cost the company $300,000 to $400,000 per year. These days it\u2019s more like $2 million. Before the pandemic postponed the most recent season-opening, Berkeley Rep had committed to paying for 7,000 nights at a nearby Marriott hotel for this past year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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