Understood - but they later instituted a larger scale dole to support artists/musicians and such...I was disappointed that part of history doesn’t seem as readily available these days....so much is being erased even as so much other data is being gathered about us by those who would rule...
The grain dole is the first recorded system Rome put into effect - even though it’s hard to find info, they got much more ‘liberal” before the end.
The Cura Annonae was technically available for all citizens living in the capital - I’m not aware of any specific dole for artists/musicians.
Artists / musicians since at least neo-Assyrian times were supported by dole/King’s largesse in any case.
Do note that the Grain dole continued even AFTER the capital city Rome “fell” - the Visigoths like Theodoric continued the grain dole.
In fact we read of it as late as 537 AD when Belisarius beseiged Rome in the Gothic wars.