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Indent’s Partnership Grants Applications Now Open

The 2012 Partnership Grant Applications are now open! Funding teams of young people to stage their own all ages, drug and alcohol free music events throughout NSW. This year the grants saw festivals, band nights, talent competitions, rock the all ages entertainment calender to date! Indent is a project of MusicNSW and has grown to

Final Round of Quick Response Grants Now Open

MusicNSW is excited to announce one final round of Quick Response Grants is still open for applications! The Quick Response Grants were created to support artists and managers in developing their export and international support opportunities, and has been significant in assisting many artists in achieving their touring and showcasing goals. This program focuses

The Deadly Award Winners

The Deadly’s are an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The Deadly’s showcases the outstanding achievements of ATSI’s and provides identifiable national and local role models to inspire the rest of the Indigenous community, and especially our youth. The 2011 Deadly Awards were held on September

Quick Response Round 2 Recipients Announced!

In the third round of MusicNSW’s Quick Response Grant Funding, created to support artists and managers in developing their export opportunities, we are pleased to announce two new recipients of this funding! MusicNSW is excited to announce it will be supporting several bands to attend the annual Sound Summit conference this coming October long weekend.

Chords for Causes: Breast Cancer Unplugged

Last year approximately 14, 000 Australian women were diagnosed with breast cancer. 29 year old local newlywed Yvette Luciano was amongst the women diagnosed after detecting a lump on her honeymoon. After almost a year, Yvette is celebrating the end of her treatment by putting already putting back into the community. Yvette is organising a

SOUND SUMMIT ANNOUNCES SECOND LINEUP

Sound Summit is pleased to announce the second lineup announcement for the forthcoming 2011 festival. Having already announced a massive international lineup featuring Moon Duo (USA), Wet Hair (USA) and Mono (JPN), we are pleased to unveil a huge Australian lineup, making this year’s Sound Summit the biggest yet. Featuring incredible local bands from across

FLOATING ME

Australian rock supergroup Floating Me is comprised of vocalist Andrew Gillespie, guitarist Antony Brown and keys player Tobias Messiter of ground-breaking ’90s Sydney band Scarymother, Jon Stockman of Triple J favourites Karnivool on bass, and drummer Lucius Borich of influential hard-rock trio Cog who took a moment to chat with us…