{"id":9118,"date":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/06\/24\/new-music-funding-for-welsh-businesses\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"new-music-funding-for-welsh-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/new-music-funding-for-welsh-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"New music funding for Welsh businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Wales\u2019s Music Revenue Fund 2 will open next Monday (24 June). The focus of this round is to help music businesses with: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>campaigns for new releases<\/li>\n<li>promoting live music<\/li>\n<li>producing music for background or incidental use in the media<\/li>\n<li>Welsh-language music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rural label The Road Records were recipients of the previous round of revenue funding. The funding enabled the label to release an EP from Welsh cross-genre folk duo Samana.<\/p>\n<p>Samana \/ The Road Records are Franklin Mockett and Rebecca Rose who, in 2019, transformed their rural smallholding in Carmarthenshire into an artistic production house and label, whilst running a nature recovery programme in the valley to offer a sanctuary for artistic practice born from the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Creative Wales\u2019 Revenue Music Fund massively helped us to release the EP \u2018Dharma\u2019 in 2023 EP. Since its release, it has gained such global attention that we expanded it into a full length, eponymous album &#8211; cited by mojo magazine, record collector and KLOF magazine as an outstanding work, attaining 4\/5 reviews and above across the board. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our band and label have gathered huge amounts of interest since then and we are hitting the road this month with our sold-out immersive and magical \u2018In Tune With The Infinite\u2019 summer tour; an all artist-curated event, played in the round, that we are taking to a small number of unique spaces around the UK.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Minister for Creative Industries, Sarah Murphy, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Today is a day to celebrate our thriving music scene. For a small nation we can boast superb venues, festivals, promoters, studios and record labels. Across the globe people listen to Welsh stars \u2013 from established acts like the Manic Street Preachers or Funeral for a Friend to up-and-coming grassroots talent like Adwaith and Mace the Great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m committed to making sure talent across the industry \u2013 in Welsh and English \u2013 is nurtured, supported and developed. So I urge businesses to apply for this funding and build on Wales\u2019 reputation as a great place to make music.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From Monday music businesses will be able to apply for between \u00a320,000 and \u00a340,000 to spend on projects which would benefit from support, due to financial constraints. <\/p>\n<p>Projects could include live music promotion, release campaigns for new EPs \/ albums, additional studio time, or session musicians for example.<\/p>\n<p>The funding covers the full spectrum of contemporary popular music genres (electronic, hip-hop, indie and alternative, metal and punk, pop, rock, etc). It doesn\u2019t cover genres with existing support in place such as classical or jazz music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Wales has announced \u00a3300,000 in funding to help grow and nurture the music industry in Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}