What is New Music Kids?
Funding of up to $10,000 is available for artists and musicians with a children’s content focus plus a 10% mandatory Artist Creation Fee, total per fund up to $11,000.
As of January 2024, the mandatory 10% Artist Creation Fee amounting up to $1,000 plus GST (if applicable), will be appended to your grant and disbursed exclusively in the final Drawdown. This fee pertains to internal creative services provided to the project by the artist. Consequently, the New Music Kids funding grant of $10,000 will include an additional maximum payment of up to $1,000, resulting in a total funding amount of up to $11,000.
New Music Kids will help provide support for artists to professionally record one song preferably, with a maximum of two songs. Additionally, the fund can support the creation of visual content to promote the single(s) and other promotional costs to help increase the amount of quality children’s content for the tamariki of Aotearoa.
The fund launched in September 2020, with an aim of supporting the creation of original audio and visual content, and the connection of that content with a children’s audience through broadcast and online platforms.
If you are wanting support for funding EP’s or albums with a children’s focus, you can look at New Music Project Kids funding for multi-song projects.
New Music Kids has no entry threshold criteria for applying and is open to all New Zealand Children's Music Artists.
New Music Kids July/August
Applications Open: Thursday 18 July
Applications Close: Thursday 8 August, 4pm
Results Published: Thursday 5 September