Under its main annual funding for arts organisations for 2016, the details of which were posted online this week, the Arts Council has increased its funding for music and the traditional arts by 2%. Opera funding remained at the same level.

Twenty-one music organisations received funding of €3.39m, up from €3.31m in 2015; two opera organisations received €2.1m; and eight traditional arts organisations received €1.17m, up from €1.15m.

A total of €36,099,151 was awarded under the Annual Funding, Annual Programming Grant and Regularly Funded Organisations schemes, which means that music organisations received 9.4% of the total, opera received 5.8%, and traditional arts received 3.3%.

The awards included €1.42m for Wexford Festival Opera, €865,000 for Irish Chamber Orchestra, €680,000 for Opera Theatre Company, €620,000 for the Irish Traditional Music Archive, €515,000 for Music Network and €347,000 for Na Píobairí Uilleann.

Chamber Choir Ireland received an increase of 12%, from €323,000 to €362,000.

An interactive map provided by the Arts Council and showing the spread of funding across the country is available here.

Full details of music, opera and traditional arts funding can be seen below. For more, visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/funding-decisions/

Music
Irish Chamber Orchestra                
€865,000 (↑0.6%)

Music Network                              
€515,000 (—)

Chamber Choir Ireland                  
€362,000 (↑12%)

Contemporary Music Centre          
€290,000 (↑1.8%)

West Cork Music                            
€243,240 (↑1.3%)

Improvised Music Company          
€209,500 (↑0.7%)

Irish Baroque Orchestra                  
€174,500 (↑2.6%)

Crash Ensemble                              
€173,000 (↑1.2%)

Association of Irish Choirs            
€126,000 (↑0.8%)

First Music Contact                        
€92,500 (↑2.7%)

Louth Contemporary Music          
€50,000 (↑25%)

Music for Galway                          
€46,250 (↑2.8%)

Galway Music Residency              
€44,000 (—)

The Journal of Music                      
€37,000 (—)

Note Productions                            
€33,000 (—)

Bray Jazz Festival                          
€30,000 (↑50%)

Cork International Choral Festival
€30,000 (↑50%)

Great Music in Irish Houses          
€26,250 (↑5%)

Sundays at Noon/Gallery Music    
€20,000 (—)

Cork Orchestral Society                  
€16,750 (↑11.7%)

Pipeworks Festival                          
€6,520 (↑0.3%) 

Traditional Arts
Irish Traditional Music Archive        
€620,000 (↑1.6%)

Na Píobairí Uilleann                          
€347,000 (↑3%)

Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy          
€80,000 (—)

Comharchumann Forbartha
Ghaoth Dobhair                                  
€36,000 (—)

Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre            
€33,000 (↑10%)

Ionad Cultúrtha                                  
€23,600 (↑0.2%)

Cairdeas na bhFidléirí                        
€17,120 (—)

Baltimore Fiddle Fair                          
€16,000 (—) 

Opera
Wexford Festival Opera                      
€1,420,000 (—)

Opera Theatre Company                    
€680,000 (—)