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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · 16d

Our Talent Development Network Organisation Drake Music are putting on their collective artist showcase ✨

📅 Friday 10 October, 6.30pm to 10pm

📍 Rich Mix, London + livestream

More info ➡️ www.drakemusic.org/news/drake-m...

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Ailís Ní Ríain @ailisniriain.bsky.social · 29d

Wow! 🤓 A great review of Holocene @theartsdesk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3p6ft3dh The album is now available on NMC Recordings. tinyurl.com/388r5r5e @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · 16d

✨ We’re heading to @reeper9395.bsky.social 2025! ✨

Six artists supported through our International Showcase Fund (ISF) will be performing:
Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Ellur, Ellie Dixon, Far Caspian, TTSSFU, Pistol Daisys ✨🎶

Read more ➡️ prsfoundation.com/2025/09/17/p...

prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 20

Inaugural PPL Momentum Accelerator Tees Valley grantees announced: artists Boo, Loren Heat, Marina Josephina, and industry pros Nicola Coaker & David Macnab 🎶

prsfoundation.com/2025/08/20/l...

Thanks to our partners: PPL UK, Sonic Futures, Tees Valley CA, Generator UK, @ukgovofficial.bsky.social

prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 20

Latest PPL Momentum Music Fund grantees announced ✨

Alfie Sharp, Brooke Combe, Enola Gay, Finn Forster, Lucas Alexander, Saïna, Shelf Lives, The Oozes, The Orchestra for Now, Valtos

prsfoundation.com/2025/08/20/l...

Thanks to our partners : PPL UK, Creative Wales, Arts Council Northern Ireland

prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 19

@niknakdjmusic.bsky.social receives support to perform @mutek.bsky.social through PRS Foundation’s International Showcase Fund ✨

#newmusic #newmusic2025🔥❤️🎧

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 14

PRS Foundation announces the tenth round of promoters supported through the Early Career Promoters Fund @artscouncilengland.bsky.social 📢

Since R1 over £500k in support has been issued to over 170 early career promoters

Currently open for applications

tinyurl.com/ypssf6ey

prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 7

Calling composers, ensembles + music orgs UK & Ireland — Beyond Borders 2025 now open!

PRS Foundation’s co-commissioning + touring fund - up to £20k for collaborative new music projects across nations.

#CreativeScotland #ArtsCouncilWales #ArtsCouncilIreland #ArtsCouncilNI

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎶 Meet the latest recipients of the PRS Foundation’s Hitmaker Fund! 🎶

🎹 Alfie Rudman
🌍 Cole YoursTruly
🎛️ Scott Styles
🎙️ Bluegirl
✈️ ØJM
🚌 Jimmy James

💥 Applications for the next round open 1 Sept – 29 Sept 2025.

prsfoundation.com/2025/06/26/l...

Latest 6 Songwriters and Producers announced to receive Hitmaker fund support - PRS for Music Foundation

Latest 6 Songwriters and Producers announced to receive Hitmaker fund support PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading charitable funder of new music and talent development announces today the latest producer...

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌱 From Grassroots to Glastonbury 🌱

This year, over 60 music creators funded by PRS Foundation are performing at #Glastonbury2025 — from breakthrough stages to headline slots.

For 25 years 🎂 we’ve invested in the future of music 🎉

prsfoundation.com/2025/06/25/f...

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Oxford Contemporary Music (OCMevents) @ocmevents.bsky.social · Jun 26

Here are some of the wonderful audience comments for Echoes and Embers by Ezra Gray and Giles W Bennett (4-5 July).

Booking: wegottickets.com/f/13863

Co-promoted with Oxford Festival of the Arts and OVADA.

Funders: @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social @ppluk.bsky.social

Audience quote: "Very emotional. The most touching thing I have experienced in ages. Beautiful, utterly absorbing and full of feeling.”

Audience quote: "It shows what we can do as a species if we stop, look and listen. A mimicry of the wonder of nature. An intense and intimate example of play.”

Audience quote: "Ethereal, otherworldly, introspective and magical. Like stepping into another realm.”

Audience quote: "Like there is more to reality than we experience day to day."

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Ailís Ní Ríain @ailisniriain.bsky.social · Jun 26

We're dusting off the cymbals & vibrators! 5th July Southbank Centre - Onyx Brass with Amersham Band - Holocene - Southbank Centre 5th July. New Music Biennial 2025. @southbankcentre.bsky.social #newmusicbiennial @prsfoundation.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social FREE.

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Oxford Contemporary Music (OCMevents) @ocmevents.bsky.social · Jun 26

Tickets are sold out for @elliewilsonuk.bsky.social's Moth X Human next week, but you can hear it on the BBC New Music Show from last Saturday:

(at 1 hour 17 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social @ppluk.bsky.social

@ukceh.bsky.social

Publicity graphic for Ellie Wilson's Moth X Human at Southbank Centre, Sat 5 Jul, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚅You’ll access the amazing collections at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social as well as immersive sound studios and technical support at @york.ac.uk.
🛤️Apply by 13 July: yorkshiresoundwomen.com/news/apply-n...
🙌🏽YSWN is a @prsfoundation.bsky.social Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL. 🧵2/2

Graphic featuring audio waveforms criss-crossing in a way suggestive of railway tracks, overlaid with text in a font reminiscent of 1970s British rail, and the logos for YSWN and PRS Foundation. The text says: Changing Gear, create new electronic music inspired by 200 years of rail. Apply now.

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Xenia Pestova Bennett @xeniapestova.bsky.social · Jun 24

London 6 July! I will play the #magneticresonatorpiano designed by @apmcpherson.bsky.social in my new piece GLOW featuring Hard Rain Ensemble and spooky 👻 ghost story narration with video art by Steve Lee. It’s free, but you have to book. ✨ @prsfoundation.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social

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Contemporary Music for All @comanewmusic.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you missed hearing CoMA's @prsfoundation.bsky.social New Music Biennial piece on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show last Saturday eve, then you can catch up with it now online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Head to 1hr 40' in to hear @uriagnon.bsky.social's MARCH performed at @bradford2025.co.uk! 🧵1/2

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, David Fennessy's 'Blood'

A world premiere recording of David Fennessy's 'Blood'

www.bbc.co.uk

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 24

Four talented composers
Heloise Werner, Edmund Jolliffe, Colin Riley & Matthew Coleridge receive PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund 🎼

prsfoundation.com/2025/06/24/f...

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Ailís Ní Ríain @ailisniriain.bsky.social · Jun 20

Holocene my New Music Biennial commission premiered by Onyx Brass and Hammonds Band is availble to listen BBC Radio 3's New Music Show. It's a fantastic performance.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@prsfoundation.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social @cmcireland.bsky.social #bradford2025

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, New Music Biennial

Recordings from this year's New Music Biennial in Bradford.

www.bbc.co.uk

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 13

Show your support at JustGiving ❤️

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PRS for Music Foundation

Raise money, support your friends, give to a cause. Show you care.

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎙️The Talent Development Network supports and brings together organisations working at the frontline of talent development across the UK – ensuring transformational support is available to a broad range of music creators based in the UK working at any career level and in any genre

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎙️6 out of the last Mercury Prize winners - English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Little Simz, Arlo Parks, Dave, Wolf Alice) received PRS Foundation support. This includes the most recent winners English Teacher

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 13

This year PRS Foundation is celebrating 25 years of investing in the future of music 🎂

Since 2000 PRS Foundation has given more than £50 million to over 9,000 new music initiatives.

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · May 29

Open letter has received over 350 signatures from across the industry at the link below 🔗

The increased support would go into existing export initiatives as well as plug pipeline gaps and tackle increased barriers

prsfoundation.com/2025/05/29/m...

prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · May 29

UK music industry calls for £10 million per year for music export and exchange in the upcoming Spending Review to stimulate long-term growth of the UK music industry 📢

@prsformusic.bsky.social @wearethemu.bsky.social

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prsfoundation.bsky.social @prsfoundation.bsky.social · May 29

Music industry unites to call on the UK Government to bolster investment in music export and exchange 🌍

Read & sign the open letter ✅

prsfoundation.com/2025/05/29/m...

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