New grantees for Women Make Music and The Open Fund announced
We are very pleased to announce the next recipients of Women Make Music and The Open Fund. With a huge variety of genres and projects being supported, these 59 grantees are testament to the incredibly high quality of applicants for these funds. The projects supported are extremely diverse, ranging from a Scottish ceilidhs to a community jazz comission in Woolwich. Click on the grantee below to find out more information, and get a sense of the projects by listening to the relevant Spotify playlists.
Women Make Music supports the development of outstanding women songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career. The fund can support projects by women songwriters, composers, artists, bands and performers who are writing their own music. Read more about the fund here.
The Open Fund supports the development of outstanding songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds and at different stages of their career. Read more about the fund here.
The next deadline for The Open Fund and Women Make Music is Monday 13th June 2016 at 6pm.
Women Make Music
Lail Arad
Michelle O Faith
Abi Wade
Dee Byrne
Lauren Kinsella
Kat McHugh
Marika Hackman
Jealous of the Birds
Sadie Harrison
Listen to our Spotify playlist featuring some of the funded artists here:
The Open Fund for Organisations
Moving On Music
Dentist Arts & Musics
Celtronic Derry Ltd
Philharmonia Orchestra
HD Arts Productions CIC T/A Hidden Door Festival
Lichfield Festival
Chiverin
Black Box Belfast
Icebreaker
The Nest Collective
Sound City (Liverpool) Ltd.
St John Sessions
Newham Music
Swanage Jazz Festival
Institute of Art and Ideas [IAI]
Three Choirs Festival Association Ltd
Music for Change
Sensoria Festival
New Writing North
Scottish Opera
Bastard Assignments
St Magnus International Festival
Knockengorroch cic
Irene Taylor Trust
Qu Junktions
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//)
Swn Festival Ltd
Showcase Scotland Expo
Oxford Contemporary Music
Scottish Music Centre
Streetwise Opera
Living Song
Spitalfields Music
London Contemporary Orchestra
The Open Fund for Music Creators
Trish Clowes
John Harle with Sally Beamish, Dario Marianelli, Gavin Bryars, Daniel Harle, Steve Lodder, Elvis Costello
Swedish Death Candy – Louis Perry, Marco Ninni, Francesco Codardo, Jiwoon Whang
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Kate Whitley
Aidan O’Rourke, Graeme Stephen, John Blease
Amy True
Ben Cottrell
Byron Wallen
Kathryn Joseph, James Graham (The Twilight Sad), Marcus Mackay
Meilyr Jones
Richard Durrant
Yazz Ahmed
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
otta
Harriet MacKenzie
Listen to our Spotify playlist featuring some of the funded artists here: