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Nashville Symphony, Opera and others receive arts funding from American Rescue Plan

Nashville Symphony onstage at schermerhorn symphony center
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The Nashville Symphony on the Schermerhorn stage.
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The Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, and “Girls Write Nashville” are among nine Tennessee arts organizations to receive money from the American Rescue Plan.

The National Endowment for the Arts recommended grants for more than 500 arts organizations across the country to help them recover from the pandemic. The funding can go towards salaries, health and safety supplies or marketing efforts to encourage attendance.

In total, $1 million was granted to Tennessee organizations.

The symphony was granted $150,000, which it plans to use to pay the salaries of musicians. The opera was granted $100,000, and Girls Write got $50,000.

Other grantees across the state include Stove Works, Griot Collective of West Tennessee, International Storytelling Association, Blues City Cultural Center, Soulsville, and the Highlander Research and Education Center.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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