The Transmission Fund provides grants of £500 – £1,500 to fund opportunities that focus on developing your creative practice. The Transmission Fund provides grants of £500 – £1,500 to fund opportunities that focus on developing your creative practice and furthering your professional development at a crucial point in your career. We know that musicians’ career […]

The Writer Producer Fund offers an opportunity for songwriters and writer-producers working in popular music to further develop their careers and writing/production credits with grants of up to £10k The Writer Producer Fund is delivered by PRS Foundation in association with the BASCA Trust. The BASCA Trust provides education and grants, and raises public awareness […]

This was published on the Traditional Music Forum website. Hello, for those of you who don’t know me, I’m Becca. I’m a harp player who works with two wonderful projects: Tannara and HEISK. When I was originally asked to contribute to this blog I was initially delighted. However, I started to think: honestly? me? Why […]

I read this very interesting news article the other day by Stephen Raskauskas and thought you might like to see it! A new study conducted by O2, a company which owns some of United Kingdom’s largest music venues, and Patrick Fagan claims that attending live concerts can help increase life expectancy and improve overall well-being. […]

Here’s an excerpt of a great blog from Austin Kleon. I  never feel like I have a book in me. I always feel like there’s a book aroundme. It’s like I’m a planet and there’s all this space junk orbiting me, and all the junk starts smashing together and forming book chapters. My job is to grab that […]

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 […]

sound is pleased to offer a development opportunity for composers based in North East Scotland as part of our soundcreators programme.  The opportunity will involve working with Aberdeen’s new music ensemble, Any Enemy, to write a new work for performance during this year’s soundfestival. Any Enemy is Aberdeen’s new music ensemble. Formed in 2018, it is […]

Worth a shot? Here are links to the forms. You send them to Spooner Sylwia <sylwia.spooner@msz.gov.pl>. I think this person will ask questions too! Application Form Regulamin_MFFZG 2018-ang

This workshop will explore musician+dancer collaboration, sparking conversation around listening skills, dialogue and creative connections. “I feel extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with many incredible musicians. They have patiently and generously taught me about time, feel, phrasing, dialogue, amplification, audio recording, and most of all, helped me reimagine traditional dance as […]

I spotted this the other day on a Scottish band website. It’s another service that uploads your music to different streaming services. It is owned by Universal Music which they are pushing by saying. Your music on the world’s biggest music platforms. Your tracks in the ears of Universal Music’s labels. Make music. See who’s […]