What Is Music:Leeds?
Music:Leeds is a not-for-profit organisation established to act as a single, centralised point of contact that will coordinate activity to support, promote, develop and grow music-based activity within the city and wider region, across any level, medium, genre or pathway.
This will include targeted projects, creating networking opportunities, mediation, and signposting for individuals, local organisations and businesses, funding organisations, local and national government and national music industry bodies.
This activity is determined by our strategy, centred around three core areas, delivered through seven project streams:
CORE AREAS
Creative Development & Business Growth
Placemaking & Tourism
Access to Music
PROJECT STREAMS
Artist Development & Business / Enterprise Support
Networking
Communication
Capacity Building
Storytelling
Heritage
Open Access
A City Music Forum will offer the opportunity for the wide ranging body of Leeds music stakeholders to contribute and feedback into this activity, the broader strategy and the organisations priorities. Find out more here
Launchpad is delivered by Music Local in partnership with Music:Leeds and provides the opportunity for emerging artists in the Leeds and Yorkshire area to benefit from industry advice, mentoring, creative development, performance opportunities, recording and public releases of their music. Find out more here
Music:Leeds is supported by Leeds 2023 & Leeds City Council, Youth Music with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, as a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner and with additional support from UK Music, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds College of Music, Leeds BID and Awesome Merchandise.
Music:Leeds is proud to sign the Keychange pledge in a global effort to achieve representation.
Supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Keychange is a global network and movement working towards a total restructure of the music industry in reaching full gender equality.
Read our pledge here.
Music:Leeds is led by Samuel Nicholls aka whiskas, previously a musician, promoter, venue manager, artist manager and record label owner in the city who now works as Lecturer in Music at Leeds Beckett University, is an advisor for PRS Foundation and Arts Council England and is part of the Artistic Programme Advisory group for Leeds 2023.
If you have any questions, wish to talk about the project, or highlight areas of music in Leeds we should address, please email whiskas: