Breaking Through: Getting Your Music Out There - 13th Sept 2021

What: Music Industry Panel
Location: The Mill.TV, Bradford & Streamed Online

This panel offered advice and guidance on how to take the first steps to reach a wider audience for your music.

They covered topics such as:

• the best way to approach releasing music, in order to get the most traction from streaming services

• how to use social media and other online platforms to engage and grow your audience

• how to approach key tastemakers in the media and radio

• forming a medium to long term plan

• what funding and other development opportunities are available for emerging artists in the region.

Speakers included:

• Shell Zenner - BBC Music Introducing, Amazing Radio

• Aisling Doherty - Manchester Jazz Festival

• Chiedu Oraka - artist

• Yasmin Lajoie - Slay Music / Artist Manager

• Simon Rix - Kaiser Chiefs

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Launchpad is delivered by Music Local, and is supported by Youth Music, with public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, as well as Bradford Council, Craven District Council, Leeds 2023, arts@leeds, Leeds City Council, Awesome Merchandise, PRS Foundation's Talent Development Partnership supported by PPL and in partnership with Wakefield Council's Creative Wakefield programme funded by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Cultural Development Fund grant, which is administered by Arts Council England.