Latest projects to receive open funding announced!
It’s not new news that our funding is very competitive! We tend to see around a 10% success rate across our funds. Every one of our grantees has been through our assessment process and wowed at least 2 assessors and a panel of experts with outstanding music examples and activity that has a significant impact on the music creators involved.
So, in this list of 61 new grantees, you will find some of the best new music across all genres that the UK has to offer. Follow us on Twitter and check out the names below to explore, discover and experience the immense quality of #FundedByPRSF music.
The Open Fund for Music Creators supports the development of outstanding songwriters and composers of all genres and backgrounds at different stages of their career. The fund can support projects by songwriters, composers, or artists, bands, producers and performers who are writing their own music or commissioning others.
The latest Open Fund for Music Creator grantees are:
180dB
ALEKXANDR
ARBORIST
Dylan Cartlidge
Girlhood
Issie Barratt
Orchards
Playing House
She Drew The Gun
Sink Ya Teeth
Soundspecies
Speakman Sound
Strange Boy
TĀLĀ
Georgia Rodgers, Laura Bowler, Marsyas Trio
John Meirion Rea
kevin flanagan
Lucy Duncombe
Sebastian Reynolds
For more information on The Open Fund for Music Creators, go here.
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.
The new Women Make Music grantees are:
Helen Caddick
Jenn Kirby
Laura Cannell
lula.xyz
Mara Simpson
Martha Hill
Rowan Rheingans
Sharky
Tarantina
Xenia Pestova
Yassassin
For more information on Women Make Music go here.
The Open Fund for Organisations supports new music projects led by promoters, talent development organisations, venues, festivals, curators and large performance groups. The Open Fund for Organisations offers grants of up to £10,000 for projects involving the creation, performance and promotion of new music that enable songwriters, composers, or solo artists, bands, producers and performers of all backgrounds to develop creatively and professionally.
The new round of organisations to receive funding are:
The Albany, Deptford
London Improvisers Orchestra
Carousel
West Dean College of Art and Conservation
Mytime Active
Bromley Youth Music Trust
BASCA
Tusk Music
The Old Vic
Yucatan Records
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Moving On Music
Philharmonia Orchestra
Mixed In Sheffield Projects LTD
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
A Kind of Seeing
Rambert
OperaUpClose
The Sick of the Fringe Ltd
AudioActive
Tomorrow’s Warriors
IMBOLC Festival/ An Gaelaras
The Tin Music and Arts
Off The Record
Sonic Media Group
Somerset House Trust
International Guitar Foundation & Festivals
Aeon Industries
Lepus Productions
Women Produce Music
Dartington Hall Trust
For more information on The Open Fund for Organisations, go here.
