MISP Recording Stimulus Prize 2020

In 2020 Steve Ryan received an award of €5,000 as part of the Music Industry Stimulus Package from the Dept. Of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media. This allowed him to develop, record, and release new work in the form of “Focus On The Past 5” by windings (2021)
From: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
The Music Industry Stimulus Package involved three funding schemes, designed to help sustain the popular and commercial music sector, across all music genres including rock, pop, hip hop, indie, jazz, country & western, traditional and folk.
Under this package, a fund of €1,700,000 was put in place to stimulate areas of work which artists would usually fund with income from own sources, including live event fees.
The music stimulus schemes were targeted at professional musicians and their teams and will support song writing camps, recording and album releases.
The aim was to ensure that Irish musicians, engineers, PR, media, agents, labels and publishers can continue to develop and share their work in the context of COVID-19 restrictions.
The Music Industry Stimulus Package schemes was managed on behalf of the department by First Music Contact and will be subject to panel assessment.

Recording Stimulus
This fund is to facilitate the recording of Singles, EP’s or Albums.

Grants of the below amounts will be available for each:

Album Recording: €6,000 to each successful application

For the purposes of this fund, the below definitions will be used for review:

Single = 1 song
EP = 3 or 4 songs
Album = Recordings over 33 mins, 20 seconds in length OR a minimum of 8 separate tracks AND a minimum of 25 minutes of music
One grant per applicant only will be available.

The Recording Stimulus fund is intended to support your activity and may not fully cover all costs. You may combine this fund with other funds and/or fundraising streams.

Priority will be given to applications which make use of facilities and services located in the Republic of Ireland.