{"id":137951,"date":"2025-11-13T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137951\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:36:18","slug":"applications-sought-for-music-capital-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/137951\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications sought for Music Capital Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music Network is calling on all musicians and performing groups who wish to apply for the Music Capital Scheme to apply now.\u00a0 Applications for Award Categories 1, 2 and 3 close on\u00a0Thursday 27 November at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>This year a record, almost 2 million euro in \u00a0funding is available for the scheme which is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications &amp; Sport \u2013 a substantial 78% increase on previous years.<\/p>\n<p>A total of a million euro is available through Awards 1, 2 and 3, which support non-professional performing groups and individual professional musicians in purchasing instruments and essential equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, the scheme has made 657 awards, providing access to instruments for over 59,000 people across Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Music Network is committed to equity and inclusion, and encourages people from all backgrounds and communities to apply.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the awards, guidelines and application forms are available at www.musicnetwork.ie<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries can be sent to Sarah Ledwidge, Music Capital Scheme Manager:<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 083 016 2718 \/ E-mail\u00a0capitalscheme@musicnetwork.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music Network is calling on all musicians and performing groups who wish to apply for the Music Capital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-137951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}