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Are you a venue looking for artists?...

Mon 24 Apr 2017

Are you a venue looking for artists?...

Are you a venue looking for artists? If so you could try contacting Laughing Dog Music. Laughing Dog Music is a live music booking agency, marketing and PR company based in Sheffield, who organise and book tours .....Read more

Urgent Call Out for a  Musician/Band to perform

Mon 23 May 2022

Urgent Call Out for a Musician/Band to perform

Kirklees Council have an opportunity for a musician or band to take to the Greenhead Park bandstand stage as part of the Queen’s Jubilee Big Lunch family fun day! The slot will be from 4pm to 4.45/5pm on Saturday 4th Jun.....Read more

Making Music Research

Tue 13 Jun 2017

Making Music Research

Do you work with groups which are making music which is not Classical? An African drumming group, a gamelan group, a gospel choir? Do you work with community leaders or representatives with links to these groups? If so,.....Read more

Choirs just as worthy of funding as football, report argues

Tue 18 Jul 2017

Choirs just as worthy of funding as football, report argues

Across the UK, 40,000 choirs are boosting the health and wellbeing of singers, but with funding they could do much more, according to new research. Amateur choirs deserve to receive the same levels of public support a.....Read more

One in three think classical music must drop ‘elitist’ tradition

Mon 07 Aug 2017

One in three think classical music must drop ‘elitist’ tradition

Almost half of respondents to a YouGov poll said more young children must learn a classical instrument if the artform is to survive. Elitist’ traditions and the perception that big classical music concerts always tak.....Read more

Exporting is GREAT awards £200,000 funding to UK music

Mon 04 Sep 2017

Exporting is GREAT awards £200,000 funding to UK music

The Department for International Trade and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has awarded £213,310 to 15 musical acts from the UK to aid their international ambitions. More than 150 acts to date have benefitted from .....Read more

Music for All applications - Autumn deadline extended

Tue 28 Apr 2020

Music for All applications - Autumn deadline extended

Music for All have extended their Autumn funding deadline (normally July) to 1 November 2020 for funding in January 2021 due to the Coronavirus crisis. The fund aims to give a helping hand to projects and initiatives.....Read more

Campaign to protect live music venues

Tue 23 Jan 2018

Campaign to protect live music venues

Live music venues including pubs, theatres, music and concert halls under threat from outdated noise restrictions could be protected under a proposed law change, which has the backing of councils. As it stands, the law s.....Read more

Live Music inquiry

Mon 26 Feb 2018

Live Music inquiry

The inquiry will look at the economic, cultural and social benefits of live music. Music tourism contributes £4 billion to the UK economy that year. However, despite the fact that festival and concert attendance continu.....Read more

Report on the benefits of music for dementia sufferers

Tue 27 Feb 2018

Report on the benefits of music for dementia sufferers

New research by ILC-UK’s Commission on Dementia and Music, ‘What would life be – without a song or a dance what are we? examines the existing offer and the future potential for using therapeutic music with dementia. The.....Read more

Open call for proposals for New Music Biennial 2019 (UK)

Sun 25 Feb 2018

Open call for proposals for New Music Biennial 2019 (UK)

Aiming to create a pop-up, interactive way for audiences to discover new music, the PRS Foundation is calling for proposals for the New Music Biennial 2019. New Music Biennial 2019 will showcase up to 20 pieces of new m.....Read more

Huddersfield Music scene reaches On:Yorkshire Magazine

Thu 01 Mar 2018

Huddersfield Music scene reaches On:Yorkshire Magazine

Huddersfield may be home to a Premier League football team, but it’s also home to a world class music scene. Famous internationally for its Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield has a lot more to offer than people re.....Read more

Exciting new initiative - Music Planet Live & Music Venue Trust

Tue 13 Mar 2018

Exciting new initiative - Music Planet Live & Music Venue Trust

100 new young female promoters - 100 new shows - 100 grassroots music venues. Music Venue Trust and Music Planet Live are delighted to announce a major new partnership to reinvigorate and diversify the grassroots musi.....Read more

Huddersfield to Oz – how Bhangra is set for the world stage

Mon 19 Mar 2018

Huddersfield to Oz – how Bhangra is set for the world stage

Huddersfield’s very own Bhangra expert, full-time teacher of art and research fellow at the University of Huddersfield, Hardeep Sahota, is taking his passion for the culture to the other side of the world, to spread its .....Read more

Dewsbury Lunchtime Concert season goes out with a bang!

Mon 19 Mar 2018

Dewsbury Lunchtime Concert season goes out with a bang!

Last week saw the last concert of the 2017/18 Lunchtime Concert Season at Dewsbury Town Hall and what a finale! We had a whistle-stop tour through the percussion section of the Orchestra of Opera North with Chris and El.....Read more

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