Deadline: 28-Jul-22
The Arts Council is seeking nominations for the Music Project Award to enable professional artists/musicians (individual artists, groups of artists or organisations) to bring innovative, ambitious and high-quality music projects to audiences.
Strands
There are three strands to the award:
- Projects devised for live-attendance performance(s), possibly extending public reach through broadcast, online or other audience channels – e.g. a public concert in a venue that might or might not also be recorded for broadcast and/or for dissemination on website(s), social media or other platform(s).
- Projects devised exclusively for public dissemination via broadcast, online or other channels – i.e. where a musical output is produced for audiences, but where a live audience is not involved.
- Audio recording projects devised in association with record companies for dissemination through digital platforms and/or through physical copies.
Strategic Priorities
The Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- High-quality music projects that engage professional artists of high quality and demonstrate a strong and imaginative approach
- Music projects that show a clear and considered focus on maximising public reach and engagement, and on engaging and developing new audiences
- Projects that involve the creation and/or presentation of new work, or that feature performance/recording of historic Irish music
- Recording projects of high artistic quality for which self-financing commercial revenue potential is unlikely.
Award Information
- Strand 1 Up to €40,000
- Strand 2 Up to €10,000
- Strand 3 Up to €10,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to individuals and organisations working in music. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland.
- There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland.
- However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.
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For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Music-project-award/