Call for Applications: Music- French Speaking Projects (Canada)

It allows artists to devote themselves to creation or production projects, to foster the development of song and music artists by prioritizing access to cutting-edge human and technical resources for the realization of their project, and to help artists make their works known.

Categories

• The program has five categories:
  • Creation: A project to create new songs or musical works through the composition of music, the writing of lyrics, or both.
  • Demo or EP production: Includes all steps from recording to launch (for an EP).
  • Full-length album production: Includes all stages from recording to album release.
  • Show development: Preparation phase of a new show of original French-language songs intended for an audience present physically or virtually (e.g. online broadcast, radio broadcast) and for which a date and venue are known.
  • Music video production: Production of a music video of a French-language song that has already been created and recorded. The music video is not considered complete until it has been released to the public.

Funding Information

• Creation: maximum $5,000
• Demo or EP production: maximum $5,000
• Long-form album production: maximum $10,000
• Show development: maximum $8,000
• Music video production: maximum $8,000

Eligibility Criteria

• Professional music artists who reside in Ontario.
• Ad hoc groups, collectives and non-profit music organizations composed of professional music artists of whom at least 50% reside in Ontario.
• To be eligible for this program, you (or, in the case of a group or organization, one of the members) must also be:
  • Either the author-composer of the songs that are the subject of the request.
  • Or the lyricist of the songs that are the subject of the request. You must specify the name of the French-speaking composers with whom you will collaborate on the project.
  • Or the composer of the music that is the subject of the request. If applicable, you must specify the name of the French-speaking lyricists with whom you will collaborate on the project.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Colleges, universities and municipalities.
• Organizations that receive:
  • An operating grant for one of the French-language arts programs, namely:
    • Visual arts, media arts and crafts: French-speaking self-managed artist organizations and centers operation.
    • French-language broadcasting how it works.
    • French edition operation.
    • French-speaking arts service organizations operation.
    • French-speaking theatre operation.
    • Any other operating grant and not having a mandate to serve one or more priority groups of the CAO.

For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.