Arts Council Announces €1.3m in Funding for Music, Opera and Traditional Arts Organisations
The Arts Council has announced the results of the Arts Grant funding programme for 2020. A total of 131 organisations and individuals across all art forms have received offers of funding totalling €7.3m.
Among the recipients are 33 music, opera and traditional arts organisations which will receive €1.3m.
In the category of music, the contemporary music festival New Music Dublin has received an offer of €200k, Louth Contemporary Music Society received €85k, and the Galway Music Residency received €60k. The Journal of Music has received €55k for its publishing activities in 2020.
In the traditional arts category, Harp Ireland/Cruit Éireann and the Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre each received €50k, Comharchumann Forbartha Ghaoth Dobhair, which runs the traditional music winter school Scoil Gheimhridh Ghaoth Dobhair, received €42k, and Ériú Dance Company received €32k.
There was one successful opera applicant, Dumbworld, which received €62k, and, in the category of young people, children and the arts, the WhistleBlast Quartet received €60k.
The Arts Council has also announced €915k through its Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme, and expects to announce a further €35 million in funding through its Strategic Funding scheme, which supports larger music and arts organisations.
For the full list of Arts Grant recipients, see below. For more, visit www.artscouncil.ie.
ARTS GRANT 2020
MUSIC
New Music Dublin
€200,000
Louth Contemporary Music Society
€85,000
The Galway Music Residency
€60,000
The Journal of Music
€55,000
National String Quartet Foundation
€50,000
Pipeworks Festival
€44,000
Sligo Jazz Project
€44,000
Ceol Connected
€42,000
Resurgam
€36,000
Kaleidoscope Night
€34,000
Dublin Sound Lab
€30,000
Cork Orchestral Society
€30,000
Music in Kilkenny
€27,000
Quiet Music Ensemble
€25,500
Sundays at Noon / Gallery Music
€22,000
Kirkos
€21,000
Irish Composers’ Collective
€20,000
Music for Wexford
€17,500
Waterford Music
€13,600
Drogheda International Music Series
€14,000
Clifden Arts Society
€10,900
Symphony Club of Waterford
€9,500
Sounding The Feminists
€5,500
TRADITIONAL ARTS
Harp Ireland / Cruit Éireann
€50,000
The Séamus Ennis Cultural Centre
€50,000
Comharchumann Forbartha Ghaoth Dobhair
€42,000
Ériú Dance Company
€35,000
Baltimore Fiddle Fair
€32,000
Ionad Cultúrtha
€30,000
Historical Harp Society of Ireland
€27,000
OPERA
Dumbworld
€61,460
YOUNG PEOPLE, CHILDREN AND THE ARTS
WhistleBlast Quartet
€60,000