Grant Money For Composers

OK, so you ask "What about more traditional forms of funding for the arts? Are there any opportunities left? Why don't you write more about that kind of funding?"

And my answers are, in order...

1. They are out there, but you have to look for them.
2. Yes. Here's a story about just one of them . Notice that this group alone gives out 1 Million a year, and that each of the 5 recipients makes $200,000.00 each. Hardly chump change.
3. The focus of this blog has been on what's going on with the business side of things, what the big companies are up to, and how musicians can use technology, opportunity seeking, and good old fashioned hard work to get ahead. This has always been my personal approach to business: Boot strap it.

Then again, maybe I'm getting mellow as I age (like cheese) but I have to admit that networking and mutually beneficial relationships have been the real backbone of any success I have had over the last few years. So maybe there is such a thing as too much Independence after all. Certainly it's no good to spend so much time looking at new trends and opportunities that we ignore some of the more traditional, and well established, ways to secure funding.

With that in mind, I promise to look into more of the traditional Grant, Scholarship, and Corporate Sponsorship funding sources for musicians, and other artists.

And if you know of any of these kinds of opportunities, please send me an e-mail, so that we can share them with others as well.

Thanks and Good Luck,

JG