Tip
Published Tuesday 9 March 2021
It continues to be a challenging time for the music industry with limited opportunities and the end of JobKeeper.
We're rounding up funding, EOIs and opportunities and grants, and will continue to update this page.
Support Act Crisis Relief is also available for eligible musicians, crew and music workers experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID crisis. Find out more about the new 'MusicKeeper' and 'CrewKeeper' cash grants, which are designed to help cushion the blow occasioned by the end of JobKeeper payments.
Tips to get started:
| National Opportunities |
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The David Harold Tribe Fellowship Awards |
| All resident Australian composers are invited to submit a new symphonic composition for the David Harold Tribe Symphony Award. |
| Apply by 26 April 2021 |
APAM Gathering at Darwin Festival - EOIs |
| Profiles are short presentations (5-10 mins in length) by artists, companies and presenters, to share information about new and existing performance projects, and invite collaboration and potential partners. Online, in-person presentations are not mandatory. |
| Closes Midnight AEST 16 April 2021 |
Global Music Match |
| Global Music Match is a world-first collaboration created by founding partners Sounds Australia, Showcase Scotland Expo and East Coast Music Association (ECMA), along with export organisations and showcase events from around the world. Applications are now open for Australian artists to take part in the next edition. It’s a 16-week, artist driven program, designed to establish real life connections between export-ready artists. Artists’ work should be rooted in acoustic, folk, roots, traditional, or world music genres. |
| Apply by 16 April 2021 |
Youth Composition Competition : Steel City Strings |
| Award winning Illawarra based orchestra Steel City Strings is holding a composition competition in line with its "Celebration of Youth" concert series. On offer is the chance for a young composer to have their work performed by the members of Steel City Strings. The winner of the competition will be awarded AUD 1,000 and will have their works performed during the "Celebration of Youth" concert series. Competitors must be 25 years old or younger. |
| Entries close 18 April 2021 |
screenrights cultural fund |
| The Screenrights Cultural Fund makes a difference by supporting people with exciting and innovative new initiatives that foster the creation and appreciation of screen content in Australia and New Zealand. |
| Apply by 28 April 2021 |
The Fanfare Competition |
| The Fanfare Competition is open to young people aged 12-21 years, to compose a 30 second composition and submit a score and recording online. Win the opportunity for mentorships and to have your music recorded and performed. |
| Submission deadline is Monday 31 May 2021, 5pm |
Australian Music Fund |
| The ABC has announced a fund to commission multiple new Australian works across the classical and jazz genres. The Fund is offering up to $6,000 for each commission, to cover the writing of a new work and musicians’ costs to make a recording. Also provided is an ABC studio as well as producers and engineers for the recording. |
| Apply by 5pm on Friday 12 June 2020 |
Support Act Crisis Relief |
| Support Act's Crisis Relief is available to eligible musicians, crew and music workers experiencing financial hardship due to the Covid crisis. Find out more about the 'MusicKeeper' and 'CrewKeeper' cash grants, which are designed to help cushion the blow occasioned by the end of JobKeeper payments. |
| Ongoing |
| New South Wales |
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Regional Arts Touring |
| Regional Arts Touring funding supports projects that provide access to arts and culture for audiences living in regional NSW. Read the full eligibility guidelines. |
| Apply by Monday 19 April 2021 at 5:00 PM AEST |
Giant Developments |
| The programme offers marginalised, uncredited, and overlooked performers a unique opportunity to develop and show new work. Greater Sydney area residents are eligible. |
| Apply by 1 May 2021 |
Music Senses |
| Music Senses is a paid residency for 10 participants that seeks to connect music artists who are d/Deaf, hard of hearing (HoH) and hearing so they can collaborate, experiment and create music in new ways. Music Senses is a program of the Hack Sounds initiative developed in partnership between Accessible Arts and 107 Projects and supported by Create NSW. |
| Applications close on Sunday 2 May 2021, 11.59pm |
YOUNG WOMEN'S JAZZ WORKSHOPS 2021 |
| Jazz is about communication, expression, and speaking freely through your instrument. Developed in partnership with Dr. Sandy Evans OAM in 2002, the Young Women’s Jazz Workshops have played a transformative role for countless musicians aged 12 and up around Australia. Expressions of Interest open now, there is a course fee payable if you are accepted. |
| Submit EOIs by 4 June; auditions 19 June |
Underproof - Northern Beaches |
| UNDERPROOF Northern Beaches returns on Saturday 8 May 2021 for an even bigger and better all ages, all inclusive event. For your chance to play, submit your expression of interest. |
| Open |
| Northern Territory |
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Arts and culture grants program |
| The Arts and Culture Grants Program offers various grants for projects that explore, develop and profile arts and culture in the Northern Territory (NT). |
NTRA Quick Response Grant |
| The NTRA Quick Response Grant category supports creativity, innovation, participation, and access to arts and cultural activities which contribute to the sustainable cultural, social and economic capacity, and well being of individuals and community. |
| Next Quick Response Round now open |
| Queensland |
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Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP) |
| The Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP) supports vibrant and accessible arts and cultural experiences for Queensland by individuals, organisations or collectives. Round 3 opens 15 February 2021. The program is delivered through three streams- Arts Accelerate, Arts Activate and Arts Advantage. |
| Next round opens 1 May |
Vinnies Emergency Relief FUND FOR THE MUSIC INDUSTRY |
| QMusic and Vinnies Queensland have come together to distribute emergency relief funds to Queensland artists, musicians and music industry workers who are facing unprecedented harsh times. |
| South Australia |
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Live and Local - City of Charles Sturt |
| The live and local program supports local musicians and small businesses to access funding for live and online events. EOIs are open on an ongoing basis. |
| Apply by 1 June 2021 (unless funding is exhausted is prior) |
country arts sa - shows on the road |
| This program aims to increase access to the arts through the delivery of professional performing arts to smaller country centres. |
| Applications open until 17 December |
| Tasmania |
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Event Support Quick Response Grant - City of Hobart |
| The City of Hobart is keen to see its venues used for your ideas and creative projects. There are quick response grants of $1000 available to help cover fees and other costs of an event. $19,000 in total is available in this grant until 31 May 2021. |
| Ongoing, this round apply by 31 May 2021 |
| Victoria |
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Music for victoria fund |
| This seed funding will allow for $2,000 grants to be given to venues, who will in turn pay performers, creating hundreds of gigs across the state. |
| Applications close 30 Jun 2021 or until all funds are exhausted |
Arts and Culture Grants - City of Stonnington |
| The annual Arts and Culture Grants program is open to artists and organisations, to deliver arts projects within the City of Stonnington. |
| Applications close 22 April 2021 |
YoWo Music |
| YoWo Music is a contemporary music program for young women and GNC teens in high school. The program, based in Melbourne, runs on a semesterly basis with weekly rehearsals, and culminates in a gig at a local music venue. YoWo provides participants with professional female musicians as mentors, who lead rehearsals and guide participants through learning and arranging covers, workshopping original songs and developing live performance skills. |
| Applications close 23 April 2021 |
RAF Quick Response Grant |
| Quick Response Grants are intended to assist regional artists, arts organisations and communities to take up professional or skills development or small project opportunities. |
| Round now open |
Youth-led Grants - City of Yarra |
| These grants provide an opportunity for a young person or group of young people aged 16-25 who live, work, study or have a strong connection to Yarra, to apply for a grant of up to $3,000 to plan, drive and deliver a project or event by young people for young people within Yarra. |
| Apply by 30 April 2021 (or when the funding pool has been expended) |
Discounted use of Town Halls - City of Yarra |
| The City of Yarra offers discounted hire to not-for-profit community groups who operate in Yarra. If you are a community group and want to hold an event with significant benefit to Yarra's community, you can apply for this grant. 90% discount on Town Hall Hire. |
| Ongoing |
| Western Australia |
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Kalgoorlie-Boulder Annual Grants program |
| The program provides one-off grants and three-year service agreements for not for profit (incorporated or auspiced) community groups and organisations, and individuals supported by an auspice organisation, with a focus on community development initiatives, capital works projects and events or activities. |
| Apply by Friday 16 April 2021 |
Regional Artist WA Fellowships |
| The Regional Artist Fellowships of $50,000 support up to four outstanding, established regional WA artists and/or arts workers’ creative activity and professional development for a period of up to two years. |
| Apply by 5pm, 13 May 2021 |
RAF Quick Response Grant |
| Quick Response Grants are intended to assist regional artists, arts organisations and communities to take up professional or skills development or small project opportunities that arise at short notice. Open to individuals, groups, incorporated not-for-profit organisations and Local Governments based in Regional WA |
| Apply by 16 June 2021 |
Drug Aware YCulture Regional |
| Through Drug Aware YCulture Regional individuals aged 12 - 26 can apply for up to $4,000 if living in regional WA or up to $6,000 if you live in remote WA, or above the 26th parallel, to support you in delivering your arts project. |
| Apply by 19 November 2021 |