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03/08/2026
✍️ Register now for our online information session for The Music Network National Musical Instrument Collection – Music Capital Scheme Award 4.
📅 Tuesday, 11th August at 11am
🔗 Register here: https://loom.ly/MhbRH0Q
✨This award loans instruments for a period of 3 years to exceptional players. Successful recipients may also be offered up to €5,000 towards the purchase of a new bow.
🎵 Who can apply?
Advanced violinists, violists, cellists and harpists aged 18+ who are embarking on, or in the early stages of, a professional performance career, and who are Irish citizens or resident in the Republic of Ireland.
📅 Application deadline: 2pm, Tuesday 29 September 2026.
This project is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
28/07/2026
💫 Applications are now open for The Music Network National Musical Instrument Collection – Music Capital Scheme Award 4.
✨This award loans string instruments for a period of 3 years to exceptional players. Successful recipients may also be offered up to €5,000 towards the purchase of a new bow.
🎵 Who can apply?
Advanced violinists, violists, cellists and harpists aged 18+ who are embarking on, or in the early stages of, a professional performance career, and who are Irish citizens or resident in the Republic of Ireland.
💻 Want to learn more before you apply?
Join our online information session on Tuesday 11 August at 11am to find out more about the award and how to apply.
📅 Application deadline: 2pm, Tuesday 29 September 2026.
✍️ Find out more and apply via the link 🔗 https://loom.ly/345BSl8
This project is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
The Music Network National Musical Instrument Collection - Music Capital Scheme (Award 4) | Music Network Applications are now open for The Music Network National Musical Instrument Collection – Music Capital Scheme Award 4, designed specifically for emerging classical players.
23/07/2026
✨ Huge congratulations to all the winners of the 2026 TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards! 👏🎶
We're especially proud to see so many familiar faces who have been part of our own programmes over the years recognised among the recipients.
🎻 Cathal Hayden (Gradam Ceoil TG4 / Musician of the Year) joined us on tour this May with the Máirtín O'Connor Trio and special guest Kathleen MacInnes - having first toured with Music Network back in 1999.
🎤 Pauline Scanlon (Amhránaí TG4 / Singer), a former artist in residence as part of our RESONATE programme, Pauline returns to our stages this September to tour alongside Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Tom Morrow and John Doyle.
🎻 Siblings Séamus & Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta (Ceoltóir Óg TG4 / Young Musician of the Year) toured with us last September alongside Ryan Molloy, and have both received support through our Music Capital Scheme.
🪗 Niall Vallely (Cumadóir/Composer award) joined us on tours in May 2023 and September 1998 and was recently awarded the Music Network/Centre Culturel Irlandais Music Performance Residency in Paris.
🎻🪗 Nollaig Casey and Mirella Murray, recognised as members of Cherish the Ladies (Grúpa Ceoil TG4 / Music Group of the Year), have both toured extensively with Music Network, Nollaig most recently in 2024 and Mirella in 2023.
Comhghairdeas to all of this year's recipients! 💙✨
14/07/2026
🎉 We’re delighted to be shortlisted for a Business to Arts Award in the Creative Access Award category alongside our wonderful partners, Ecclesiastical Insurance and the Katharine Howard Foundation, for the Music Network Lullaby Residency. 🏆
🎶 Designed and led by Dr. Eamon Sweeney, the Lullaby Residency brings together young children and their families from migrant communities with local families to connect through music, play and the sharing of lullabies. The programme fosters social, cultural and artistic inclusion through these shared creative experiences. ❤️
📍 Delivered in Clare and Kildare, the residencies also provided valuable mentoring opportunities for local musicians, equipping them to deliver these programmes in other communities.
💛 A huge thank you to our partners for their support in bringing this wonderful project to life, and congratulations to everyone involved on this fantastic recognition. ✨
Business to Arts Benefact Group Katharine Howard Foundation Eamon Sweeney Music
✨This year we are celebrating 40 years of Music Network, and we want to tell you a little more about some of the things we do.
🎼We develop new and original music performances specifically for children and family audiences.
In 2012 we established a long-term strategic partnership with The Ark, a cultural centre for children, to develop new and original music performances specifically for children and family audiences. Originally presented and toured in 2022 Wires, Strings and Other Things returns in 2026 via The Ark’s online platform. Wires, Strings and Other Things is an immersive musical performance that creates a sound-world of exploration and curiousity, facilitated by Andreea Banciu on viola, James Allsopp on bass clarinet and Ed Devane on a variety of electronic instruments.
We are delighted to be offering schools the opportunity to stream the show and brand new workshops on-demand into your classroom no matter where you live for free as part of our 40th anniversary.
✨ As we celebrate 40 years of Music Network, you can help us continue this work with a gift of just €40.
By giving €40 for our 40th you will be helping us deliver more community programmes, continue to nurture musicians and keep the music playing across Ireland, for everyone.
Give 40 for 40 now at 🔗 https://donorbox.org/40-for-40-894466
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We've got some exciting news to share!
Applications for Music Capital Scheme Award 4 will be opening soon, and this year we're thrilled to be able to expand the range of instruments available from the Music Network National Musical Instrument Collection to include a concert harp.
Earlier this year, we sent two expert harpists to visit the Salvi Harps workshop in Piasco, Italy, where they got an insider's view of the craftsmanship behind these remarkable instruments and helped us select the perfect new addition for the collection.
🔗 Want to be the first to know when applications open? Sign up to receive a notification at https://loom.ly/Xk15h14
Supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
05/07/2026
🌱We want to be part of the solution to the climate challenge. As part of our Climate Action Plan, we are working to better understand and reduce the environmental impact of our activities, while encouraging more sustainable practices across the music sector in Ireland.
🍄To do this, we first need to understand what our environmental impact is and how our work contributes to it. We are committed to working with our staff, board, and network of partners to identify practical ways to reduce our environmental footprint and support positive change across the sector.
🎵If you have attended a Music Network concert or event in the past year you can help us by answering a few very short questions about your own travel to our events.
Your responses will help us better understand the environmental impact of our work and inform the actions we take in the future.
🔗Take the survey through the link: https://loom.ly/1nDlETg
✨This year we’re celebrating 40 years of Music Network, and to mark the occasion, we’ve been catching up with some of the wonderful musicians who have been part of our programmes over the years, to talk about their own musical journeys and why they play.
🎼We sat down with singer-songwriter Niall McCabe (), to chat about why he plays music. Niall toured with Nollaig Casey and Mike McGoldrick as part of a Music Network tour in September 2024 and is also a Music Capital Scheme awardee.
✨ Playing a musical instrument brings so many benefits, from boosting wellbeing to building confidence and connection. If you’ve been thinking about starting or returning to an instrument, why not take the first step today?
🎵 Music Network’s Instrument Hub is Ireland’s national information resource, helping musicians and organisations at all levels to find out how or where they can hire, borrow, purchase, repair or access funding for instruments.
🔗 Visit Instrument Hub and get playing!
https://www.musicnetwork.ie/instrument-hub
Instrument Hub is funded by Creative Ireland
🎥Video by Dave Knox/No Name Media
02/07/2026
🚨Deadline reminder - There's just 1 week left to apply for the Music Network and Roscommon Arts Office Musician-in-Residence Programme at King House.
📅The deadline for applications is Thursday 9 July at 2pm
Watch our online information session and apply now at 🔗 https://loom.ly/9Fm-bl0
This programme is presented by Music Network in partnership with Roscommon Arts Office, supported by King House , Roscommon County Council, the Bank of Ireland Community Fund in partnership with The Community Foundation Ireland and the Tomar Trust.
✨This year we're celebrating 40 years of Music Network, and to mark the occassion, we've been catching up with some of the wonderful musicians who have been part of our programmes over the years, to talk about their own musical journeys and why they play.
🎼We sat down with singer songwriter Niall McCabe, to chat about why he plays music. Niall toured with Nollaig Casey and Mike McGoldrick as part of a Music Network tour in September 2024 and is also a Music Capital Scheme awardee.
✨ Playing a musical instrument brings so many benefits, from boosting wellbeing to building confidence and connection. If you’ve been thinking about starting or returning to an instrument, why not take the first step today?
🎵 Music Network’s Instrument Hub is Ireland’s national information resource, helping musicians and organisations at all levels to find out how or where they can hire, borrow, purchase, repair or access funding for instruments.
🔗 Visit Instrument Hub and get playing!
https://www.musicnetwork.ie/instrument-hub
Instrument Hub is funded by Creative Ireland
🎥Video by Dave Knox/No Name Media
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