First Music Contact Regional Development Plan

Hello and welcome to the first step in the First Music Contact Regional Development plan project.

First Music Contact is the leading national music organisation for resourcing musicians and the independent music sector in Ireland. We deliver projects at key stages of an artist’s development, helping them develop real careers.

As a national resource organisation we treat our all-of-Ireland remit seriously. This new project aims to better develop a way of offering equal access to professional development services to musicians all around Ireland. We will be working with a number of local arts offices to put this plan together.

What we want to do is better understand where musicians like you are in your careers and what your current aspirations and needs are. We will then use this information to inform our own work and to advocate for the things you need to progress your career.

This is a musician-first project and we want to find out:

(1) what you need to get your music career off the ground or to take the next step

(2) the practical things you need

(3) the supports and advice you are after

It begins with this questionnaire.

We will be hosting a series of online workshops and sessions over the next six months to tease it all out. These workshops will also provide practical advice and music industry panels on many of the issues raised by this questionnaire. You will have an opportunity to attend these free workshops and have an input into the process.

It’s your call. Your opportunity to have a say and a hand in shaping what happens next. The pilot plan will cover Cavan, Mayo, Leitrim and Cork with the hopes of rolling out into more counties in the new year.

First off, we’d appreciate about 5 minutes of your time to fill out this questionnaire. [If you’re a band, each member is free to answer the questions – the more the merrier]

Please note that all the details provided by you will be treated as confidential and are solely for the purposes of this project. All information will be anonymised and aggregated. No individual submissions will be shared with any third-party.