PRS Foundation in the press

Don’t take it from us! Read about what the media are saying about PRS Foundation, our funds, and our funded music creators and organisations.

If you’d like to write about or feature our funding schemes and projects, please email liam@prsfoundation.com or alison@prsfoundation.com maxie@prsfoundation.com

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Manifesto coverage:

BBC Newsbeat, Dazed, Billboard, BBC News, i-D, Belfast Telegraph, Music Week, CMU, ROTD, M Magazine, Irish Independent, Irish News, Evening Express, The Irish Examiner, Echo News, Ikley Gazette, BT.com, The Argus, Northwich Guardian

Festivals gender pledge coverage:

The Guardian, Daily Mail, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Noisey, ABC Online, Victoria Derbyshire (from 1:46:10), Music Week, Clash, Resident Advisor, Mixmag, The FADER, NME, The Times, Pitchfork, The Quietus, IQ Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, Radio X, Belfast Telegraph, The Yorkshire Post, The Industry Observer, CMU, BT, Byte FM, The I Online, Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Independent, BBC News.

International Showcase Fund

Alexander Hawkins, Mammal Hands and Mathew Halsall attend Rochester International Jazz Festival 2016 – Jazzwise

PRS [Foundation] fund brings multi million pound benefits for UK artists – Music Week

Momentum Music Fund

PRS Foundation launches Liverpool-focused music fund – Arts Professional

MOMENTUM FUND PARTNERS WITH LIVERPOOL CITY COUNCIL – M Magazine

Northern Irish organisations sign up to support PRS Foundation programmes – CMU

PRS Foundation Momentum Music fund has announced the 16 artists who will receive support – RotD

Momentum 5 Year Report:

BBC Radio 6Music (2hrs 26mins and 56 seconds in), Music Week, BBC News Online, The i Online and in print, CMU

PRS Foundation and the team

Vanessa Reed named number 3 in BBC Woman’s Hour Women in Music Power List:

Woman’s Hour, M Magazine, BBC News, BT.com, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Essex (1hr 2mins into recording), Mail Online, Daily Echo, Evesham Journel, Lancashire Telegraph,

Vanessa Reed, Chief Executive of PRS for Music Foundation wins music category of Hospital Club 100 Awards – Record of the Day

Vanessa Reed wins Hospital Club award – Classical Music

Joe Frankland helps curate Off The Record Festival, Manchester – The Line of Best Fit

New Music Biennial

New Music Biennial review – from the startling and striking to the cinematic and scabrous – The Guardian

New Music Biennial, Hull 2017 ★★★★ – The Telegraph

Hull groups to join top talent for mass music Biennial festival in 2017 – Hull Daily Mail

Resonate

Resonate: the great British symphonic revival – The Guardian

Composers today deserve to see their work performed more than once says Ivan Hewett – The Telegraph

PRS For Music Foundation launches Resonate – Record of the Day

Funding the future – Classical Music

Steve Reid Award

InNOVAtion award open for applications – Music Week

PRS Foundation call out for applications for Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award – The Wire

Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award recipients announced – Jazz Standard

The Composers’ Fund

Composers today deserve to see their work performed more than once says Ivan Hewett – The Telegraph

PRS Foundation announces nine Composers’ Fund grantees – Classical Music

The Open Fund

We LOVE the LIMF Academy 2016 shortlist… – The Guide Liverpool

Women Make Music

Women Make Music 5 year report coverage:

• BBC Radio 4 Front Row (18m 18s in)
• Channel 5 News Live
• London Live News
• BBC Radio 3 In Tune (36m 29s in)
• BBC Radio 3 In Concert: 1^st March (2h 19m in), 2^nd March (1h 57m in), 3^rd March (2h 3m in), 6^th March (2h 14m in), 7^th March (2h 6m in).
• Music Week (online news story) (magazine interview with Vanessa)
• Sky News Radio
• Huffington Post
• i newspaper
• CMU

Women Make Music 2016 Recipients – thegirlsare

Approved: Michelle O Faith – CMU

The Writer Producer Fund

First major UK fund for songwriters and writer-producers – Songwriting Magazine

Beyoncé’s Songwriter Endorses £10K Music Industry Grants – The Voice

Beyond Borders

Flit by Martin Green – The Guardian

Aon Teanga – Un Chengey- Celtic Times