money for musicians in ireland

Subject: money for musicians in ireland
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 06:52 PM

Bursaries for young musicians in Ireland

Recently announced 'The RAAP/RTÉ Breakthrough Bursary 2012 is a series of bursaries awarded to emerging musical performers across a wide range of genres. RTÉ and RAAP want to help emerging artists by giving them the chance to break through to the next level of their musical career. A total bursary of €24,500 will be available to the winning entries. This will be broken down into four categories with €5,000 being awarded to each of the winners. In addition, each of the nine runner-up acts will receive a bursary of €500.'

One of the four genres is traditional music.

Subject: RE: money for musicians in ireland
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 06:59 PM

TDS IN IRELAND get approximately this
Basic salary: €106,581
Committee Chair: €20,023
Expenses: €33,622
Secretary Allowance: €40,090
Total: €200,316
ex tds get a car for the rest of their lives.
time the amount of tds were cut, and more money was given to the needy and to increasing rural garda and encouraging creativity in all the arts/music.
B Rad.

Subject: RE: money for musicians in ireland
From: IanC
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 07:29 AM

As a comparison

The basic salary of an MP in the House of Commons was increased to £65,738 as of 1 April 2010. I don't think they had a salary hike in 2011 or 2012 so it would be about 80,000 Euros.

Obviously, Ireland has a better class of politicians.

:-)

Subject: RE: money for musicians in ireland
From: framus
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 06:49 PM

Have YOU seen the exploits of some of our politicians, both sides of the border.
Then again, SOME of out musicians are crap. But better than TD/MPs!