Syncopation and improvisation celebrated to the tune of $1.12 million

The Australian jazz and improvised music sectors have benefitted from recent RISE funding announcements, but will funds flow from festivals to the grassroots?

11 Aug 2021 9:34

Richard Watts

Music

Perth pianist Harry Mitchell at Perth International Jazz Festival 2020. Photo credit: Ewa Ginal-Cumblidge Photography (via PIJF).

Two jazz festivals and an improvised music festival are among the recipients of the most recent round of Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) funding.

Perth International Jazz Festival, the Sydney Improvised Music Association and Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues all received funding in the July round of RISE.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts