Music to the ears of artists
TALENTED musicians are being invited to showcase their work, with Queenscliff Music Festival’s Emerging Artist Grant submissions opening today.
Each year QMF organisers select up-and-coming acts from the Barwon South-West region — from Queenscliff to Warrnambool and Geelong to Colac — to share in up to $10,000 of funding to go towards their musical career.
Grant recipients are also given an opportunity to showcase their music with a slot on the festival line-up.
Ocean Grove’s Andrea Robertson and Apollo Bay teenage rockers the Refuge shared the 2017 grant.
The QMF Emerging Artist Grant has handed out $70,000 over the past eight years to musicians such as the Murlocs, Yirrmal, Aine Tyrrell, Hollie Joyce, Sweethearts and Rough River.
Applicants must detail a specific project they wish to fund through the project. Submissions close on June 30.
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“I wanted it to be her decision to carry it on or not and when she told me it was Mia Naomi, I was thrilled.”