Creative Live Music Music

Women Make Music – Funding opportunity

17/09/2018

Music Funding opportunity – Women Make Music supports the development of outstanding women songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career.

The aims of Women Make Music are:

To break down assumptions and stereotypes within the music industry by encouraging role models for future generations

To raise awareness of the gender gap and to ensure that women are aware that support for new music is available to them

To increase the profile of women who are creating new music in the UK

To encourage women who may otherwise not have applied for PRS Foundation funding to do so

Women Make Music offers grants of up to £5,000. The fund can support projects by women songwriters, composers, artists, bands and performers who are writing their own music.

The funding includes support for:

  • touring
  • recording
  • promotion and marketing
  • exciting community projects involving high-quality music creators
  • music creator residencies
  • live performances featuring new UK music

The next deadline is 1st October at 6pm. For more information, please visit: prsfoundation.com

 

 

Awards Creative Live Music Music

Trad Album of the Year 2018 – open for nominations

10/09/2018

The Scots Trad Music Awards 2018 – The Trad Album of the Year highlights the trad recording industry and showcases the vast number of albums which are released each year in the trad/folk music genre. Albums eligible for entry are those released between September 2017 and August 2018 and must have more than 6 tracks or 40 mins of material. Only albums within the folk/trad genre are eligible for this award.

The Longlist (20 releases), decided by an industry panel, will be announced in October 2018. The shortlist (10 releases), decided by 50% industry panel and 50% public, will be announced in November. The winner will be announced at the Scots Trad Music Awards on 1st December, Perth Concert Hall.

For more information please visit: https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/scotstradmusicawards/album-of-the-year/