What Is Music:Leeds?

Music:Leeds is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2019 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.

We ran three City Music Forum events in 2017, 2019 and 2021 to garner feedback and identify opportunities in the local music sector.

We established Launchpad in 2019, an emerging talent development program that offers opportunities and support for emerging artists, musicians, producers, bands, composers and music professionals throughout the Yorkshire region.

In 2020, as we began to work across a wider area, we launched Music Local to support and develop place-based music support systems and infrastructures, tailored to the needs of individual music communities beyond it's hometown. 

Music Local / Music:Leeds / Launchpad is supported by Youth Music, with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, arts@leeds, Leeds City Council and Bradford Council part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and PRS Foundation's Talent Development Partnership supported by PPL.