Deadline: 24-Jul-25
The Arts Council is thrilled to seek applications for its Music Project Award to support specific artistic projects in music.
It focuses on enabling individual artists and organisations to bring their ideas to fruition and create excellent artistic work.
Objective
- The purpose of the award is to enable professional artists/musicians (individual artists, groups of artists or organisations) to bring innovative, ambitious and high-quality music projects to audiences.
Categories
- There are three strands to the award:
- Strand 1: 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).
- Strand 2: 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.
- Strand 3: Audio recording projects devised in association with record companies for dissemination through digital platforms and/or through physical copies.
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.
Funding 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 who are resident or based in Republic of Ireland.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applicants who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Organisations currently in receipt of funding under the following Arts Council programmes: Strategic Funding, Arts Centre Funding, Partnership Funding though the involvement of such organisations as partners is welcome
- Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2026 Arts Grant Funding
- National Cultural Institutions (or their Council members) directly funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
- Individuals or organisations who do not have a demonstrable track record as professional artists or organisations
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses) or who will be during the period for which this award is offered.
For more information, visit The Arts Council.