Promoting grassroots jazz and need financial help?

photograph of juliana day and manon mccoy on stage under orange / yellow lighting.

New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings applied to New Northern to support the release of ‘Capillary Cycles’ by the Sheffield based artist Juliana Day. Pictured here with Manon McCoy

Jazz North is excited to once again throw open the doors of the New Northern programme, continuing a proud tradition of support for the region’s incredible jazz promoters. 
— Chris Bye, Jazz North CEO

Northern jazz promoters are invited to apply for bursaries up to £1000 

Jazz North’s latest support scheme welcomes applications from grassroots and independent promoters working in jazz The bursaries will support fees and costs for northern emerging artists and support acts.

New Northern is Jazz North’s promoter bursary to support live emerging talent. It supports promoters to programme emerging northern artists by underwriting risk and helping pay essential costs. 

Designed both to support emerging artists in the north and give an injection of cash to promoters who need it, this easy-access scheme offers a quick intervention to northern grassroots promoters facing difficult financial circumstances. 

Chris Bye, Jazz North CEO, says: 

“Jazz North is excited to once again throw open the doors of the New Northern programme, continuing a proud tradition of support for the region’s incredible jazz promoters. 
The landscape continues to present extremely challenging circumstances for the sector and with New Northern, Jazz North is able to provide backing to the vital people who facilitate our local scenes, promote new talent and make up essential components of the northern night time economy.”

Head to jazznorth.org/new-northern to find out more.

For a deep dive into the application process and peek at some example answers you can sign up to our online ‘Applying to New Northern’ workshop via Eventbrite: Thursday 17th July 4.30-5.30PM. 


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