Call for entries: Music Cities Awards 2022

The Music Cities Awards is a global competition designed to acknowledge and reward the most outstanding applications of music for economic, social, environmental and cultural development in cities and places around the world. 

The awards returns to a live format after two successful virtual editions in 2020 and 2021.

Rules

• Interested artists can nominate themselves, their own organisation, someone else, or another organisation.
• Artists can apply for multiple awards but each application has to be done individually. The projects and initiatives entered must have been running in 2021 and or 2022.
• The personal data provided in the form will be used for processing and evaluating the application. Data won’t be used or shared with anyone outside of Music Cities Events, Sound Diplomacy and the Awards Jury.

How to apply

The Music Cities Awards are free to enter. You can submit an application for yourself, your initiative or organisation, as well as submit an application on behalf of another project, city or individual. Interested artists can submit their entries here before 29 July.

Below is the full list of categories:

• Best Global Music City
• Best Initiative to Support Diversity & Inclusion in Music
• Best Initiative to Support Music Education & Career Development
• Best Music Tourism Initiative
• Best Initiative Using Music to Improve Health & Wellbeing
• Best Initiative Using Music to Support Environmental Sustainability
• Best Initiative Using Music for Economic, Social or Community Development Cities
• Best Night – Time Economy Initiative
• Best Use of Music in Real Estate or City Planning
• Best Organisation or Individual Supporting Music in their City
• Best Digital Innovation to Support Musicians or Music in Cities

All questions regarding this call should be sent via email to alice@sounddiplomacy.com.

View the original call here.