Deadline:
February 4, 2018
Planning a music tour but unsure how to
fund it? Apply to Concerts SA’s Music Mobility Fund which will select new
projects to support in February. This tour support mechanism offers
opportunities for professional South African musicians to undertake live music
tours in South Africa as well as other Southern African Development Community
(SADC) countries. The fund provides support to live music performances,
collaborations and performance-based workshops across all music genres.
More than 700 musicians have successfully
toured across the nine South African provinces as well as 10 countries in
southern Africa (Botswana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique,
Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia and Madagascar), playing more than 800 shows to over
50,000 people, spanning genres from folk to hip-hop, from gqomto punk-rock, from
jazz to indigenous music, in formal and informal music venues and spaces. For a
list of all venues that have hosted a CSA-supported show visit the website for
a comprehensive music map at www.concertssa.co.za
Applicants are encouraged to use the Concerts
SA Venue Map (www.concertssa.co.za/venues-map) and the Concerts SA Live Music
Toolkit (www.concertssa.co.za/downloads/live-music-toolkit) in the preparation
of their tour.
Enquiries and applications should be
submitted by email toconcertssa@samro.org.za, by fax to 086 500 7028 or by post
to Concerts SA, c/o The SAMRO Foundation, 20 De Korte Street, 4th Floor SAMRO
Place, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001.
The deadline for applications is February
4, 2018.
For more information, visit
http://concertssa.co.za, follow @ConcertsSA on Twitter (www.twitter.com/ConcertsSA)
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