Music

Recognizing the critical importance of music in bringing communities together and building collective creativity, Sparkplug supports emerging musicians in developing new work, sharing existing work with a wider community through events or media, bringing together musicians to collaborate on creating or performing pieces, or facilitating new workshops that bring music to oppressed communities.   

Applicants for music grants will be asked to submit a sample of their music with their Letter of Intent form.

Please note that we do not provide budget replacement funding for music programs in the education system suffering from budget cuts. The best way to understand whether your project may be fundable is to look at our past music grants.

Some examples of music projects that we have funded in the past include:

-A music and other media production of a multi-ethnic Ottoman world, drawing on the stories and songs of Sephardic women.

-Commissioned compositions and the production of CDs in selected genres.

-The development of a musical program, using historical materials, memorializing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911.

-A multi-media, semi-staged performance based on the life and poetry of the celebrated Italian Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso.

We ask each grantee to send us a report in the year following your receipt of your grant letting us know how you used the funds, what impact(s) they had, and why you were or were not able to achieve the objectives you outlined in the grant proposal.