More than a dozen national music organisations have received funding to support their operations as inaugural recipients of Music Australia’s Core Contribution Fund.
Music Australia Director Millie Millgate said 17 groups, providing services to the contemporary music industry, would share in more than $2 million in funding.
Ms Millgate said the investment would allow the organisations to strengthen core operations and staffing, administrative and running costs, and professional skills development for artists and arts workers.
She said it would also support organisations to expand their impact by facilitating sector development initiatives and engaging in market development activities.
“This two-year investment will have a significant and important impact for the organisations supported and the broader music sector.”
Ms Millgate said among the organisations funded, 16 out of 17 were national organisations, with a key focus on diversity, genre and industry sectors.
She said electronic music, country, folk, jazz, improvised music, musical theatre, children’s music and screen composers would all reap the benefits of enhanced collective representation with this core funding.
“Peak bodies representing industry sectors including festivals, grass roots live music businesses, producers and engineers, music products, publishers and crew will increase their capacity to advocate and provide targeted services and activities for their members.”
Ms Millgate said Music Australia had also committed to funding the Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN) with their renewed focus on supporting grass roots industry and delivering strategic programs and industry development.
She said AMIN represented the coalition of eight state and territory peak music industry bodies including Music ACT, Music NSW, Music NT, Music SA, Music Tasmania, QMusic and West Australian Music (WAM).
“It is imperative that Music Australia invests in the entire contemporary music ecosystem, which requires a strategic balance of support for individual artists, commercial companies and not-for-profit organisations.”
The full lists of recipients is:
- Australian Music Industry Network.
- Australasian Music Publishers’ Associated limited.
- Australian Festival Association.
- Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
- Australian Live Music Business Council.
- Australian Music Association.
- Australian Women in Music.
- Black Music Alliance Australia.
- Country Music Association of Australia.
- CrewCare.
- Electronic Music Conference.
- Folk Alliance Australia.
- Home Grown Musicals Aus.
- Major Minor Music Australia.
- Music Producer and Engineers’ Guild.
- One of One.
- Sydney Improvised Music Association.
