Jordie Lane, Jen Cloher Score Cut Of $200,000 In Gov Touring Funding

Seventeen tours for contemporary Australian artists will share in $200,000 Federal Government funding for upcoming tours.

Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean today revealed the tours selected, which will receive up to $15,000 each as part of the Contemporary Music Touring Program's 23rd round. Included in the list are Jordie Lane, Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea, The Strides, The McMenamins, Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra and The Salvadors. Their planned tours for 2013 will include workshops and community involvement as well as standard shows.

Today Crean said, “Australia's music, art and culture belongs to us all and the Australian Government is committed to ensuring that Australians, no matter where they live, have equal opportunity to access and engage with it.”

He highlighted Cloher's I Manage My Music workshops, which he said, “provides an intensive day long workshop for early career music managers.” He said that the program's funding “will allow her to take her tour to Canberra, Brisbane, Mullumbimby, Adelaide and Hobart.”

The Government's full list of recipients and financial contributions:

$15,000 for Jordie Lane, folk/alternative country singer and guitarist – The Winner Tour
$8,838 for Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea, folk rock group – In Blood Memory Album Tour.
$10,800 for Glenn Skuthorpe, country/rock singer – Great Beyonder Album Launch
$14,995 for The Salvadors, pop/rock band – Holy Drunken Fisherman Tour
$15,000 for The Strides, reggae/afrobeat/hip hop band – Rasta Live Tour
$14,925 for Mark Hilton & The Two Few and Dave Garnham & The Reasons To Live, country blues bands – Imperial Carpetbaggers Tour
$9,254 for The McMenamins, folk/alternative country duo – 4th Album Tour
$15,000 for Penny & The Mystics, roots/rock/reggae/funk band – Expansion Tour
$13,300 for The Vampires, jazz band – The Vampires Tour
$5,110 for Anonymeye, experimental folk act – Summer of Anonymeye Tour
$15,000 for Ensemble Offspring, contemporary classical group – Blow Your Own Tune
$9,000 for Two River Blues, blues band – Album Launch Tour
$15,000 for Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, contemporary jazz orchestra – 10^th Anniversary Tour
$9,841 for Jade Leonard, contemporary jazz singer and pianist – Jazz at Your Place Tour
$8,108 for Matty Rogers, blues performer – On the Road Tour
$10,000 for B2M, Indigenous R&B band – Music on the Moil Tour

A more in-depth list is here.

Applications for funding on tours commencing from 4 March 2013 are now open.