• Help Musicians Northern Ireland Launch Women In Music Fund

    August 1, 2018 - By 

    Help Musicians Northern Ireland have announced the launched of their Women In Music fund. Designed to “support organisations and established collectives working to promote gender equality and the role of women in music”, The fund will provide grants of between £1000 – £5000 to support projects with the aim of advancing the awareness of gender equality and diversity in music in Northern Ireland through education and skills development, support and empowerment. The fund is open to established collectives* and organisations who deliver projects that aim to: promote gender equality actively encourage greater participation of women in live music in Northern…

  • Army of We: International Women’s Day 2015

    March 6, 2015 - By 

    In March 2010 Oh Yeah put out a call for women in music to come together for a photo that would be included in the NI Music Exhibition. The photo (above) was launched on International Women’s Day (IWD) and was inspired by an earlier more spontaneous image (below), which captured a group of promising young acts that were around at the time. For some reason there were no women in that earlier picture, it wasn’t intentional, but it did get us thinking about the gender gap in music. Since then we have marked IWD annually by showcasing or celebrating great…