Contemporary Music Fund boost for suburban and remote artists
Two major mentoring and development programs being supported through the WA Government's Contemporary Music Fund (CMF) will provide emerging remote and outer-metro artists with the chance of a lifetime.
Successful applicants will get intensive mentoring, recording and performance opportunities to help build their careers.
Coinciding with the beginning of national Ausmusic Month, the CMF has allocated $185,000 to Nannup Music Festival's Remote Aboriginal Artist Development Program, which will support emerging Aboriginal music acts from remote WA regions over a two-year period.
Selected acts will receive mentoring by a steering committee, a professional recording opportunity, the release and promotion of several singles, plus the opportunity to perform at the Nannup Music Festival.
The CMF has also allocated $108,000 to the GRID Series, a national artist development program supporting outer-metro and regional emerging artists around Australia. Recent initiatives have taken place in Geelong, Outer South East Melbourne, Western Sydney and South West Brisbane.
The 2025 GRID Series Outer-Perth edition will target artists in Joondalup, Mandurah, Rockingham, Baskerville, Armadale, Byford, Darlington, Glen Forrest, Mindarie, Kelmscott, Midland and their surrounding suburbs.
The Series will provide four selected music acts with an intensive eight-month program to kick-start their professional careers.
The successful applicants will receive a fully-produced, mixed and mastered single, intensive one-on-one mentoring, a documentary on their personal story as artists and the opportunity to perform at local venues, Always Live (Victoria) and Perth Festival.
The CMF assists homegrown contemporary music artists with projects that enable them to produce and promote their work, along with building links nationally and internationally.