Irish unsigned bands are artists too.
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Unsigned bands are artists too.
The Arts Council has received 61 million in funding from the Irish government, an increase of 16\% or 8.5 million on last years budget. The Arts Council is the sole dispenser of grants and bursaries for the Arts in Ireland. The criteria, however, for all schemes and bursaries exclude one sector of the arts from applying for financial aid, unsigned bands.
Unsigned bands in Ireland are the financial backbone of the Irish music industry, contributing over 120 million a year to the exchequer and to various areas of the music industry.
We, the undersigned wish to petition the Arts Council to review their grants and awards system in 2005 to include this currently excluded sector of the industry. We also want the Arts Council to acknowledge the contribution of unsigned bands to furthering Irish arts by creating bursaries specifically aimed at unsigned bands. To date, these bursaries have catered for individual artists only.
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