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Updated story: Committee urges Chancellor to extend safety net to save summer festivals
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) has written to the Chancellor asking him to extend Government-backed insurance schemes to festivals and live music events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good.
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UK Music report calls for action to save live music in 2021
UK Music has published a new report calling for government measures to safeguard a summer of live music in 2021.
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Applications open for round 2 of Youth Music Incubator Fund
Grants of £5,000 to £30,000 are available to businesses, collectives, and not-for-profits working in the music industries through the Youth Music Incubator Fund.
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Take part in #SleepOut to support our industry colleagues who have fallen through the cracks
#WeMakeEvents has collaborated with #ExcludedUK on an urgent action to raise awareness of the 3 million people who have fallen through the cracks of government support. On Friday 18 December, thousands will ‘Sleep Out’ overnight to raise awareness and funds for families struggling to pay the bills, and worried they’ll lose their homes this Christmas. You…
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Scottish ban on background music in hospitality venues lifted
Hospitality venues are now permitted to play low-level background music again.
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Charity single for NHS workers honoured at Scots Trad Music Awards
A single and video created by musicians across Scotland to raise funds for NHS workers battling the pandemic has been honoured at the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.
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Take part in Creative Scotland’s Covid-19 survey of the sector
Creative Scotland is asking for responses to a survey about the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic for Scotland’s creative sectors.
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Have your say in DCMS inquiry and help protect UK music festivals
The DCMS Select Committee is conducting an inquiry into UK music festivals, following the loss of the 2020 festival season due to Covid-19.
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Take part in COVID-19 Impact Survey from The Ivors Academy & Sound and Music
The Ivors Academy and Sound and Music have joined forces in order to better understand and evaluate the dramatic impact that the pandemic has and continues to have on the music industry.
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Live music returns in Scotland as 100 capacity gigs get go ahead for Level One venues
Venues in Level One areas of local lockdown in Scotland are now allowed to stage shows as long as crowds are seated, strict social distancing is enforced, and track and trace measures in place.
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Last chance to apply for Do It Differently Covid-19 Fund
The deadline for Help Musicians’ Do It Differently Fund is fast approaching, with applications closing on Monday 23 November 2020 at 9am.
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Additional 30 culture organisations and venues across Scotland receive emergency support
30 further organisations across Scotland have received a total of £1.4million through the Scottish Government’s Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund.
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Take action to protect the future of the music industry
The live music sector is at a critical moment. With a tentative date of April 2021 suggested as a target for when gigs can run at full capacity in the UK, and two thirds of the UK’s grassroots venues unable to hold socially distanced gigs, scores of venues are still fighting for funding and to…
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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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At least four independent Scottish venues still face threat of closure
Four independent Scottish venues still face the threat of permanent closureaccording to the Music Venue Trust (MVT).
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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.
