Associations and new projects share $1.5m in grants
Twenty four music associations were among those which will share in the Australia Council’s $1.5 million worth of music grants.
Four of them are official peak music organisations representing their respective states; Contemporary Music Victoria Inc, Music NT Inc, The West Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM) and the Queensland Music Network Incorporated (QMusic) each received $50,000.
Among others receiving funding between $50,000 to $17,000 were Jazz SA, Multicultural Arts Victoria Inc, Sydney’s The Jazzgroove Association Inc, Melbourne’s The Boite, Sydney Improvised Music and the Northern Territory’s Artback NT Arts Development and Touring.
Altogether 27 acts received financial support for new works. Among them were fourth albums by Dan Kelly ($20,000) and SPOD ($10,562) – a collaboration between jazz singer songwriter Sandra Evans and percussionist Bobby Singh ($10,000) – and a 30-minute suite for recorder, trumpet, harp, tape and live processing by Genevieve Lacey ($16,600) as well as debut records from Sunbeam Sound Machine and Grey Wing Trio with their fusions of electronica, classical, Turkish and sound collages.
In the performance and touring categories were a national tour of Australian hip hop artists including Briggs, Mistress of Ceremonies, Mantra and Jaytee to support the release of Michelle Hunder’s RISE photo book ($27,369), a three-city tour of three new works by Zephyr Quartet ($29,200), the presentation of new work by JOLT Sonic at Melbourne Festival; the presentation of New Wave: Sound at Vivid Festival ($25,800), more international touring by Rudely Interrupted ($13,524), the staging of the second Desert Song Festival in the Central Desert ($30,000), the presentation of Diesel n Dub, which reinvents Midnight Oil songs in dub reggae style ($30,000) and the production of the 14th NOW Now Festival of Exploratory Music and Arts in 2015 in NSW.
The Australia Council is launching its new grants program next week at Australia Council.
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