Successful NSW Ozco Buzz Applicants Also Congratulations to the successful NSW Ozco Buzz Applicants. These groups/artists include: Belladonna DIY Collective, Byrce Jacobs, Fret Industries, Macomantics, Tahlia Petrosian, Syd Yama Sarshar and Alies Sluiter. If you are under 26 and a musician or arts worker it’s definitely worth your while applying. Next closing date is 1st

NSW Artists Showcasing at SxSW Congratulations to the NSW artists: Sarah Blasko, Bluebottle Kiss, Dappled Cities Fly, Decoder Ring, Lovetones, The Mess Hall, The Morning After Girls, Presets, Wolfmother and Youthgroup, selected for showcasing at SXSW in Austin Texas, USA. These NSW artists will be joined by 31 other Australian artists at SXSW. Further information

Indent, a project of MusicNSW, is proud to announce the 2006 Partnership Grant recipients. The 44 groups funded demonstrated outstanding event proposals for youth-driven entertainment in their communities. “Essentially the Partnership Grants enable young people to engage and deliver their own entertainment programs whilst developing invaluable organisational and social skills in a safe drug and

MusicNSW will be creating a working party in the new year to continue addressing the Issues Paper, which came out of the Vanishing Acts Report. Some recent inroads have been made to the Liquor Licence Act, at this stage looking postive for musicians, The working party will continue pushing for positive change in relation to

MusicNSW is exploring with AON the possibility of establishing a Blanket Public Liability Program for NSW bands and solo artists. The aim of this program is to provide attainable cost effective public liability insurance, through grouping a large number of bands under the one submission. At this stage we require an indication from bands and

Indents 2006 Partnership Grants have just closed. The response has been overwhelming with twice as many applicants putting in submissions. Partnership Grants enable young people across NSW to stage all-ages, drug and alcohol free entertainment with up to $6000 available to applicants from regional areas and $4000 for those in metropolitan areas. Successful applicants will

Indent has developed a new ‘Big Event Grant initiative, to be piloted in 2006. Indents ‘Big Event grant will allow young people in regional areas to work collectively in staging a large-scale music event with high profile Australian bands and performers. The Big Event Grant initiative is a reward-based grant recognising the achievements of hard-working

MusicNSW has recently launched a Grants Program with Contemporary Music Micro Grants being awarded to 24 artists as a contribution towards a variety of different projects including; recording, mastering, re-pressing, marketing, video clip production, and CD artwork. An the grant recipients are… The Accidents, Adrian Klumpes, Blue Mary, Chaos Maths, Dave Calandra, Dean Johnston, Furcurve,

Stephen Gray has left the GM position and been replaced by Millie Millgate as Director Creative and Jane Powles as Director Corporate. Jane and Millie together with the MusicNSW team plan for MusicNSW to become the new incubator, open and accessible for all musicians and all levels of industry to converge to perpetuate growth and

The Whichway Indigenous Regional Workshop Program is looking for groups who would like a music workshop to be run in their regional area. Based on the needs within your Indigenous community, organisation or arts organisation, MusicNSW would like to receive your expression of interest for workshops to be presented in your area and the types