Music Network has issued a call for tenders for the position of Project Manager for the Music Capital Scheme.

Music Network welcomes announcement of €200,000 of capital funding from Jimmy Deenihan.

After the departure of Eugene Downes in May, the board of Culture Ireland have announced Christine Sisk as acting CEO.

The Arts Council is accepting applications for its recording fund, designed to give support to performers and composers working in non-commercial genres to ensure the maximum dissemination of their work.

The Arts Council has announced details of deadlines for a number of funding and grant opportunities for musicians and composers.

Grants of up to £3,000 are available to musicians through the Emerging Excellence Awards, which are administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

The maximum amount for the Arts Council's music commissions award is €10,000. Submissions should be made by Thursday, 15 March 2012.

The contemporary music ensemble Concorde is celebrating its thirty-fifth year in existence.

The application deadline for the second round of Sky Arts funding for young artists is approaching. Applicants should be aged between eighteen and thirty and based in the UK or Ireland.

Funding for the arts is essential, but without the right approach it can blunt artists’ entrepreneurial skills, writes Toner Quinn

In an age when music is available anywhere, anytime, where do you find the underground, and what defines it?

Being cut off is a state of mind, writes composer John McLachlan

‘I mbliana ní raibh aon urraíocht ar fáil faraor, leis an tseachtain ealaíne is oidhreachta a reachtáil mar a bhíonns againn go hiondúil.’ Or, in English: ‘Unfortunately, no sponsorship was...

The rise and fall of the Irish new music scene.

The challenges facing the funding of the arts go beyond the current economic situation.