Hello and welcome to the first step in the First Music Contact Regional Development project in partnership with Kildare Arts Office, Louth Arts Office, Galway City Arts Office, Galway County Arts Office, and Roscommon Arts Office.
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First Music Contact is the leading national music organisation for resourcing popular musicians and the independent music sector in Ireland. We deliver projects at key stages of an artist’s development, helping them develop real careers. These projects include Breaking Tunes, Ireland Music Week, and Music From Ireland.
As a national resource organisation we treat our all-of-Ireland remit seriously. This new project aims to develop a way of offering equal access to professional development services to musicians all around Ireland as well as developing a framework for supporting artists at a local level.
For this project, we will be working in partnership with Louth Arts Office to deliver a high level of professional development series to musicians in your county as well as creating an opportunity for you as musicians to give feedback on what local supports you need to develop your professional careers moving forward.
Our aim is to better understand your current needs and aspirations as musicians and ascertain what stage you are at in your career. We will then use this information to inform our own work and to advocate locally and nationally for the things you need to progress your career.
We will also use this information to develop a series of professional development workshops on themes nominated by you which you can access for free as part of the upcoming program of activity with your arts office
This is a musician-first project and we want to find out what you need to get your music career off the ground and/or to take the next step. What are the practical things you need? – and what kind of advice/information would be useful to you?
There will be a series of workshops and sessions, delivered online, on April 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th, with the second half of the series scheduled for later in May.
These workshops will provide practical advice and music industry panels on many of the issues that were raised in the questionnaire. You will have an opportunity to attend these workshops for free and have an input into the process.
It’s your call. Your opportunity to have a say and a hand in shaping what happens next.
It begins with this questionnaire, which will close on Wednesday April 2nd.
First off, we’d appreciate about 5 minutes of your time to fill out this questionnaire. [If you’re a band, each member is free to answer the questions – the more the merrier]
Please note that all the details provided by you will be treated as confidential and are solely for the purposes of this project. All information will be anonymised and aggregated. No individual submissions will be shared with any third-party.
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We will come back to you after we analyse the results of this survey and have designed the professional development panels based on what you’ve asked us for. We will then send links for dates and times for these professional development panels.
