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Music Industry      Resources

Louisiana's music industry is thriving with resources for musicians, producers, and industry professionals. We can help you navigate the scene and connect with what you need to succeed.

Nationwide Resources

South Arts Jazz Road

"Jazz Road is an artist-centric touring and residency grants program to spread jazz throughout the country, strengthen work opportunities and compensation for jazz artists, and bolster deeper engagement between jazz musicians, presenters and communities."

Guitar Center Music Foundation

​​”Through instrument grants and donations, we help ensure schools and music education programs get the resources they need to keep music alive and accessible.”

Musicians Foundation

“Giving musicians the funds they need to pursue their art is all that we do. We don’t incur costs running other programs or services.”

Jazz Foundation of America

“The Jazz Foundation of America works to create gigs and provide disaster relief, pro bono medical services, and housing and emergency assistance to musicians across the country.“

League of American Orchestras

“We help members thrive and achieve long-term success through our programs, research, and learning resources.”

National Endowment for the Arts

“The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with opportunities for arts participation.”

MusiCares / The Recording Academy

“MusiCares helps the humans behind music because music gives so much to the world.”

State & Local Resources

Louisiana

Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation

“The Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation has been serving creatives throughout the state for more than ten years through programs that improve their health and sustainability. This includes partnerships to provide access to loans, grants, business training and more.”

Louisiana

The Recording Academy (Memphis Chapter)

“The Memphis Chapter serves Recording Academy members and music communities across the region stretching from Memphis and the Mid-South throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri.”

North Louisiana

Northwest Louisiana Artist Directory

The NWLA Culturalyst registry is a tool to promote the work of visual, performing, and literary artists living in Northwest Louisiana.

North Louisiana

The Monroe Symphony League

The League provides education programs for students who attend any school in Ouachita Parish or surrounding areas.

Central Louisiana

Arts Council of Central Louisiana

The Arts Council of Central Louisiana exists to broaden the impact of Art and Culture through serving and supporting those artists and organizations who create the Art that shapes the lives of our friends and neighbors.

Acadiana

Friends of Music Acadiana

The sole purpose of the Friends of Music Acadiana is to offer financial assistance to talented UL Lafayette music students in the form of scholarships and performance competition awards.

Acadiana

M.I.Brary at the Lafayette Public Library

The Chernier branch of the Lafayette Public library offers a Musical Instrument Library to lend out instruments to the community.

Greater New Orleans

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation

Ensuring New Orleans’ rich cultural legacy lives on in future generations

Greater New Orleans

The Ella Project

The Ella Project provides pro bono legal assistance, arts business services, and advocacy to our cultural community.

Florida Parishes

Arts Council Greater Baton Rouge

the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge (ACGBR) endeavors to promote cultural growth, economic development, and educational enhancement through the arts in and around the 10-parish region it serves.

Louisiana

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

“By investing in a diverse, statewide network of public programs, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities amplifies Louisiana voices and fosters access to arts, culture, education, history, and all humanities for all the people of our state.”

North Louisiana

Artists Up!

"Led by renowned Dallas, Texas curator and mixed media artist Lesli Marshall, this course promises to deliver strategies for increasing earned income for artists from the production, marketing, distribution of Art by at least 30% within one year of course completion."

North Louisiana

The Northeast Louisiana Arts Foundation

The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council nurtures a vibrant regional arts culture through support, promotion, and education.

North Louisiana

Bossier Arts Council

“We create a vibrant local arts scene that enriches the cultural life of the Bossier Parish community as a whole.”

Central Louisiana

Natchitoches Northwestern Symphony Society

What began in 1966 has evolved into a strong organization providing scholarships for string instrument players attending Northwestern State University.

Acadiana

Acadiana Center for the Arts

Founded in 1975, Acadiana Center for the Arts (“AcA”) is a community-supported nonprofit organization that fosters art and culture in Acadiana. Since its founding, AcA has developed as a major force, shaping the future of public education and community development in South Louisiana.

Greater New Orleans

Arts New Orleans

In pursuit of a more equitable, joyful, and resilient city, Arts New Orleans believes art and artists should be central to all community and economic development efforts – from public health to public safety, education to infrastructure.

Greater New Orleans

New Orleans Musicians' Clinic & Assistance Foundation

Affordable, comprehensive medical & social services for musicians and culture bearers

Greater New Orleans

New Orleans Jazz Museum

The New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrates the history of jazz, in all its forms, through dynamic interactive exhibits, multi-generational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances.

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