What makes an artist, ensemble or a venue DIY? Is it an ethos, a funding level / source, a sense of struggle or just branding? I’m pondering this in advance of the DIY Sector Meetup at Classical:NEXT and looking for other views

Bottom line. If you want the profile, play the game. With everyone. Otherwise, eventually, no one will talk about you. At all.

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Media composers - we’re launching a new Musicians' Union / The Ivors Academy specimen agreement for TV commissions. Join us online Mon 29th April 16:00 as we discuss the agreement & the commissioning landscape with Kevin Sargent, Claire Batchelor - Composer & BankeyOjo. eventbrite.co.uk/e/fair-score-n…

We support composers, and also work furthering the knowledge and understanding of the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and of the work of Ursula Vaughan Williams.

Our next general funding application deadline is May 1.

Find out more here: bit.ly/4450CKA

Foreigners might be everywhere but Scotland is not in Venice - for the first time since 2001 and that's felt a bit sad this week (although so many of us are tied to desks this week working in mega funding applications😪)

Excellent policy Emma Stenning to keep concert halls relevant. As long as it’s not with flash taking photos should be totally reasonable. If the photos were with flash then yep that’s not on at all. No reason to stop a performance because people take a photo to remember the evening

There really is no longer any reason to use Spotify. They used to be the leader for discovery but Apple Music’s Discovery playlist is excellent! AM has always paid out better too

We’ve been campaigning around streaming income for years now.

TODAY, the government finally convenes the whole industry to sit down and hash it out.

Another 6 month process, but a very important one.

I’ll be there.

The Ivors Academy will be negotiating alongside the

we do not need this, the original Korean language version was perfect. Very disturbing but perfect

JOIN Trad Music Forum at Scottish Music Centre & Scottish Storytelling Centre from 10 May fab workshops feat. Ailie Robertson Matthew Whiteside Robyn Stapleton Mischa Macpherson Euan Burton Katriona Holmes from Knockengorroch Fergus Muirhead Svenderikengh & Daniel Serridge book ➡ bit.ly/TMFWorkshops24

Writing a piece for Choir & Organ about mental health in the choral/church music profession and looking to speak to musicians/composers with a story to share

Please get in touch ([email protected]) thank you!

#journorequest

BBC Sound Effects: A Free Archive Of 16,000+ Audio Files #WAV sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk

The Three Choirs Festival has begun a recruitment process to find the organisation’s next Chief Executive as Alexis Paterson announces she will leave the organisation following this summer’s festival in Worcester.
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Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Next month I'm going to be at Classical:NEXT running the DIY Sector Meetup. Do say help if you are around and come to the session. Will be announcing who else will be with me very soon classicalnext.com/conference-eve…

If you are a student at Nottingham Uni, The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music is in your library! nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/primo-explore/…

Another #BandcampFriday and another upcoming new release that you can presave now: ffm.to/voices-of-venus by juice vocal ensemble 🕷️🕷️🕷️

Dublin friends, next Thursday go to this! :)

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic

honestly can you imagine buying into mystical fascist pseudo-history about the Magical Abilities of People In The Heroic Past when in reality if you pay artists to spend their time doing art, they get better at it much more quickly than if they are trapped in a 9-5