Music Capital Scheme

Stream 1: Non-professional performing groups/ensembles

Fifty-six applications received with a total demand of €746,098. Awards made to thirteen applicants as follows:

Artist Amount Awarded
Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin €806
2. MaSamba Samba School, Dublin €2,958
3. Roscommon County Youth Orchestra, Roscommon €12,610
4. New Ross and District Pipe Band, Wexford €7,986
5. Co. Wexford Youth Orchestra, Wexford €9,540
6. Julianstown Youth Orchestra, Meath €8,172
7. Liffey Valley Orchestra, Kildare €5,500
8. Clondalkin Youth Band, Dublin €6,372
9. Loch Garman Band, Wexford €10,087
10. St Canice’s NS Instrumental Music Programme, Kilkenny €5,856
11. Coole Music & Arts, Wicklow €7,817
12. Inbhear Mór Marching Band, Kerry €5,650
13. Comhaltas Ceoltórí Éireann Killarney €6,645

Stream 2 Awardees: Individual High-Value Instruments

Twenty-six applications with a demand total of €147,129. Awards made to ten applicants as follows:

Artist Amount Awarded

Annette Cleary

€3,750
Towards the purchase of a cello bow

Anna Cashell

€16,012
Towards the purchase of a violin

Jesse Smith

€5,000
Towards the purchase of a fiddle

Patrick Brunnock

€3,000
Towards the purchase of a classical guitar

Jessie Grimes

€1,063
Towards the purchase of a clarinet

Matthew Noone

€610
Towards the purchase of a sarode

Shane Latimer

€2,529
Towards the purchase of a guitar

Barry Donohue

€3,000
Towards the purchase of a bass guitar

Eamon Sweeney

€2,332
Towards the purchase of a 17th century guitar

Naomi Berrill

€7,704
Towards the purchase of a cello