€165,300 for Irish Music in Culture Ireland Funding
Culture Ireland has awarded funding of €165,300 to 44 Irish musicians and groups travelling abroad for performances from September 2017 onwards.
The highest award in the music category was €25,000 for a tour of Japan by The Chieftains later this year. Other recipients include singer Wallis Bird, hip-hop band Hare Squead, composer Ann Cleare and The Gloaming.
Appearances at international festivals supported by the grant include experimental music group Quiet Music Ensemble at Sacrum Profanum in Poland, harpist Máire Ní Chathasaigh at Northern Lights Harp Festival and Chamber Choir Ireland at Flanders Festival.
One-off performances include a night of new music by Irish composers by Concorde ensemble in Hong Kong and an Uilleann Piping Day celebration with pipers from across the world. The list of Music award recipients can be found below.
A total amount of €600,000 was awarded to artists in different disciplines in this funding round, with the Music category receiving the second-highest amount, after Visual Arts at €189,400. The highest single award was to Dead Centre theatre company’s touring productions (€95,000)
For the full list of recipients and funding amounts, visit https://goo.gl/uBnFs3.
Culture Ireland Summer Grants – Music
The Chieftains Tour of Japan
€25,000
Wallis Bird Australian tour
€8,000
Breaking Trad Australian tour
€7,500
Chamber Choir Ireland Performance at Flanders Festival, Belgium
€7,000
Skipper’s Alley USA tour
€7,000
Performance by Irish musicians at Fenians, Fremantly & Freedom Festival, Australia
€6,000
22nd Irish Christmas Festival in Austria and Germany with The Alan Kelly Gang, Connla and Liam Scanlon
€5,000
Concorde performance in Hong Kong
€5,000
Ceol Productions present ‘Irish Christmas in America’
€5,000
Sharon Shannon, The Young Folk, Reálta, and Cúig at Irish Nights Kammgarn, Switzerland
€5,000
International Uilleann Piping Day 2017
€4,500
Magnetic Music Irish Folk Festival tour in Switzerland and Germany
€4,500
Copenhagen Irish Festival 2017
€4,000
The Trip to Birmingham Tradfest 2017
€4,000
Cordeen Canadian tour
€3,500
Hare Squead European tour
€3,500
Paul McNamara Canadian tour
€3,500
Flook performance in Russia
€3,500
The Gloaming tour of USA, Canada and Europe
€3,500
Talos UK tour
€3,000
Irish music performances at Schottenfest, Austria
€3,000
Irish delegation to ISCM Festival, Canada
€3,000
The Finnish Irish Society 32nd Irish Festival, Finland
€3,000
Supporting musicians for Tommy Fleming US tour
€3,000
Irish Newfoundland Traditional Music Foundation presenting the 8th Annual Féile Seamus Creagh in Newfoundland, Canada
€3,000
Aerie European tour
€2,800
Led Farmers at Copenhagen World Music Festival
€2,500
Presentation of ‘A Series of Irish Magical Master Concerts’, Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, UK
€2,500
The Young Folk at Kansas City Irish Festival
€2,500
Ann Cleare new work tour, Australia
€2,500
Diatribe presenting Match&Fuse European events
€2,000
Sean Tyrrell performances in US and Canada
€2,000
Dervish performance at New Irish Cultural Centre, London
€2,000
Quiet Music Ensemble at Sacrum Profanum festival, Poland
€2,000
Réalta at Bagpipes of the World festival, Russia
€2,000
Máire Ní Chathasaigh at Northern Lights Harp Festival, UK
€1,600
Anna Mitchell tour of Germany and Netherlands
€1,200
Fintan Vallely performing Compánach with uilleann piper Tiarnán Ó Duinnchín and fiddle-player Gerry O’Connor in Germany
€1,200
Glenntown Irish Music Festival 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden
€1,200
Michael Glennon at Venice Biennale
€1,000
Patrick Joseph Keenan at Samhain Festival, St Petersburg, Russia
€1,000
Breanndan Ó Beaglaoich at Jig ‘n’ Reel Irish Traditional Music Week in Seoul, South Korea
€750
Leonard Barry/Leonard Podolak Canadian tour
€650
Four Winds at Festival Babieca, Spain
€600