18 Mar 2014
10% is not enough
Yesterday, Swedish Television News published that the call for increased state funding of the independent music scene continues. In an interview, following the call named A musical life for all!, Swedish minister for Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, says that 10 percent of the state's allocation to music will suffice to the free music community, despite the fact that professional organizers and groups outside the institutions reaches half of the music audience in Sweden.
The petition is signed by eighteen national music organisations, among others MAIS (Music organisers in collaboration), SKAP-Swedish composers and lyricists, Musikcentrum Öst, Svenska Musikferförbundet, Folkets Hus och Parker and FST (Swedish Composers Society).