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Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) 2020 winners announced
Winners of this year’s Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) were announced last night in a virtual event broadcast globally on Twitch.
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30 creative teams awarded up to £100,000 for Festival UK* 2022 R&D project
Thirty creative teams – including 2019 Scottish Album of the Year Award winner Auntie Flo aka Brian d’Souza – have been awarded £100,000 each to work on developing programmes for the Festival UK* 2022.
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UK Music’s Music By Numbers report reveals UK music industry’s £5.8BN boost to economy before Covid
The flagship annual economic study by UK Music and its members showed that the music industry continued to grow in 2019 across every sector before the Covid-enforced shutdown hit in early 2020. Since 2013, UK Music – the collective voice of the music industry – has published an annual report which reveals the economic contribution…
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Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu elected to Musicians’ Union Executive Committee
The Musicians’ Union (MU) has elected Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu to the membership body’s Executive Committee.
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Opportunity for creative and cultural organisations: applications for Challenge Holders now open
Creative and cultural organisations are invited to join the Creative Informatics research team to explore organisational challenges that require data-driven solutions.
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SAMAs go digital for 2020 awards ceremony
The eleventh edition of the Scottish Alternative Music Awards is going digital for 2020.
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Scotland 2019 music tourism data map reveals industry’s vital economic contribution
A 2019 data map released by Music By Numbers shows the vital economic contribution music tourism made to Scotland in 2019 ahead of a key report into the music industry.
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Nova Scotia: The Truth, and the rise of a New Scotland
SAY Award Campaign Director Robert Kilpatrick pauses to reflect on what the award means in 2020 in this Creative Scotland feature.
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Key finding from the PRS for Music Gender Pay Gap Report 2019/2020
PRS for Music has today published its Gender Pay Gap Report covering data for two consecutive years, 2019 and 2020.
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Phase 3 of Help Musicians’ Coronavirus Financial Hardship Funding Now Open
Applications can now be made to Phase 3 of Help Musicians’ Financial Hardship Funding. The latest initiative offers financial support until March 2021 to musicians who have fallen through the gaps of government support or are unable to make ends meet.
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Deadline approaching for youth creativity and music fund in Scotland
An open Access Fund offering grants to individuals and organisations who run youth arts and music programmes closes this Thursday 12 November 2020.
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SMIA panel to discuss value of music industry at Resonate 2020
Join the Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) at Resonate 2020 for a panel discussing the value of music, and why at this fundamental time, we must work together to communicate that value and ensure it is protected.
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Creative Scotland launches Culture Collective grant initiative in response to COVID-19
A new £1.5million Scottish Government initiative launches today to establish a network of creative practitioners, organisations and communities to respond to the impact of COVID-19 by providing employment opportunities and actively engage people in shaping the future cultural life of their community.
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Government increases support for self-employed across the UK
To reflect the recent changes to the furlough scheme, the UK-wide Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will see self-employed individuals receiving 80% of their average trading profits for November.
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Nova Revealed As Winner of the 2020 Scottish Album Of The Year Award With Debut Release ‘Re-Up’
The 2020 winner of Scotland’s national music prize, The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award, was tonight revealed as Nova for her debut release ‘Re-Up’.
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SAY Award Shortlist To Be Celebrated With #TIMSTWITTERLISTENINGPARTY Special
This year the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award Shortlist will be featured in Tim Burgess’ Twitter Listening Parties from 26th to 28th October ahead of the winner announcement ceremony on 29th October, live on www.sayaward.com. In a special one off series to celebrate the 10 outstanding Scottish albums making up the Shortlist, Tim Burgess has teamed up with The SAY Award to bring music fans together to…
