Black Music Coalition

We’re incredibly proud to announce our 2024 ✨ #ExcellenceHonourees ✨ in this month's Music Week Read our chair Sheryl Nwosu's intro alongside the amazing shots of some of this year's picks taken by 📸#CalvinCiele Also Jusnah Gadi Brenda Juliet Joel Borquaye Rami Kadri Tia Lewis Mali Emeka spoke to #MusicWeek about their past achievements, goals for the future, and views on the industry as a whole 💿🤎 Get into the Honourees' interviews in this month's mag and also look out for them online in the coming days and weeks 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 📌Check out the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/djQxtMcj and sign up to our mailing list so you don’t miss anything! #MusicWeek #TheBlackMusicCoalition #BMC #MusicIndustry

iluvlive and #StellarSongs are thrilled to announce the launch of the next leg of The Artist Development Programme 💿 They’ll be selecting two talented acts to receive £5000 worth of funding, along with unparalleled support and mentoring over a 12-month period. Award recipients will also receive support in various ways, including creating marketing plans, finding creative collaborators and more! Applications are now open via the iluvlive website (link here: https://lnkd.in/etA3MYb5 ) — don’t miss this incredible opportunity to elevate your music career! #MusicOpportunities #EmergingArtists #MusicFunding #musiccareersupport #UKMUSIC #NewTalent #MusicIndustry

We are so honoured to be back this year with our picks for The BMC's 2024 Excellence Honourees in partnership with Music Week! ✨ Now in its 3rd year, our Excellence Honorees list continues to uplift and support Black executives who are shifting the sound and landscape of the music industry in their own unique way. Nominated and voted for by our wider BMC committee and previous Honourees, this year’s cohort have already had an exciting and impressive year professionally. At #TheBlackMusicCoalition we are honoured to have been able to watch the growth of these executives and are incredibly proud to share and celebrate their achievements 💫 Massive congratulations to the following: Brenda Juliet Joel Borquaye Rami Kadri Tia Lewis Lunick Bourgess ZaZa Kazadi Mali Emeka Tobi Omoloja Jusnah Gadi Mel I. Look out for more from our Honourees across our socials this week! 📈 #manager #artistsupportartists #A&R #ukmusicindustry #bmc #blackmusic #blackmusichonors #musicmanager #musiclife #industry #industrystandard #music #BMCHonouree #TheBlackMusicCoalition

On Friday 23rd August the #BlackMusicCoalition and Soho House & Co present an exclusive panel discussing The Economy of Notting Hill Carnival and the Expansion of Black Cultural entrepreneurship 📍 The panel will be hosted by the The Black Music Coalition’s own Chair and Co-Founder Sheryl Nwosu and panellists include the esteemed JASON BLACK and Colin Batsa ✨ Booking is now open via the Soho House & Co app! We’d love to see you there 🤎 #nottinghillcarnival #blackmusiccoalition #sohohouse #180house #carnival #blackmusichistory

Start your carnival weekend with the #BMC! We’re back for the 3rd year running with our Pre-Carnival Party! 🥳 Join us at #180House Soho House & Co for all the good vibes to get you warmed up for the return to di road!🎉🕺🏾 Soho house members - the event is available to book via the #SohoHouse app! For all those who are not members and would like to come please shoot us a DM so we can get you added to the GL or hit up a friend with a Soho House membership to add you to their guest allocation ✨ The guest list fills up extremely quickly every year so don’t miss out! Music provided by the incredibly talented #DjEmz #EllaDHC #Donch #ShaunSky🚀 See you there! 🇧🇧🇯🇲🇦🇬🇱🇨🇹🇹🇬🇩🇩🇴🇰🇳🇨🇺 #blackmusiccoalition #carnival #carnivalparty

On Friday 23rd August the #BlackMusicCoalition and Soho House & Co present an exclusive panel discussing The Economy of Notting Hill Carnival and the Expansion of Black Cultural entrepreneurship 📍 The panel will be hosted by the The Black Music Coalition’s own Chair and Co-Founder Sheryl Nwosu and panellists include the esteemed JASON BLACK and Colin Batsa ✨ Booking is now open via the Soho House & Co app! We’d love to see you there 🤎 #nottinghillcarnival #blackmusiccoalition #sohohouse #180house #carnival #blackmusichistory

With support from partners in Liverpool City Region, the award-winning #POWERUP programme are looking to appoint a POWER UP Trainee: Assistant Producer – sought is someone who will work closely with Senior Power Up Manager, Yaw Owusu on a 2.5 day per week freelance contract on the transformational initiative which was created to support Black music creators and industry professionals whilst also tackling anti-Black racism across the UK and in all genres. Applications from people with Black heritage in Liverpool City Region are especially encouraged. The deadline is next week 17th July @ 12pm 🙌🏾 #PowerUpPartners #PowerUp #Opportunity

A reminder that #BMCMembership is open for applications on our website here (https://lnkd.in/epxq9eNp) 👈🏾 Membership is open to all executives across the industry and has been formulated in order to create community, to provide all music executives with a space to confide, discuss, champion issues which are relevant to them, and to join the BMC in its long-term work to create a more diverse, equitable, and hospitable industry 🤝🏾

We’re thrilled to be working with AlphaTheta EMEA Limited during Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 As part of this event series, AlphaTheta EMEA Limited will be putting on two events over the course of #MHAW2024 across London. On Night 1, Join us at The Rogue Room for a night of insightful discussion and rejuvenation for One Through Music Mind on 14 May. To kick off the evening, the panel of industry leaders will explore the intersection of mental health and music, diving into strategies to manage mental health, and connecting this to womanhood. Our founder, Alexandra Williamson, will join the panel to help shed light on the intrinsic connection between creativity and mental health, and how we can better work to support creatives. Following this inspiring panel, all attendees will be invited to take part in a SoulFlow68 session which aims to utilise a combination of yoga and breath work to achieve a flow state. Sign up to attend this free event and come say hi to the Blue Rhythm team: https://lnkd.in/eeHF9BcF The details: 14 May 6:30 - 8:30 PM The Rogue Room, Shoreditch

The MMF (Music Managers Forum)'s Accelerator Programme participants have just been unveiled! PPL is delighted to be partnering with the MMF and YouTube Music for the 6th annual edition of the Accelerator Programme. Since launching in 2019, Accelerator has become widely recognised as one of the UK music industry’s preeminent business development programmes, with 115 individuals having completed the programme to date. The 18 talented independent music managers who will participate in this Accelerator Programme will benefit from the knowledge and experiences passed down from previous managers, including managers of Joy Crookes, Shygirl, PinkPantheress, Squid, Goat Girl and many more. Our CEO Peter Leathem OBE said: “The MMF Accelerator Fund has done a fantastic job to date in developing some of the UK’s up and coming management talent into leaders in their field, enabling musicians to focus on what they do best, creating and performing music. Through PPL Giving we’re delighted to be supporting work that equips managers from across the nations and regions with a diverse range of skills so they, and the artists they represent, can go on to build successful and sustainable careers in the music industry.” You can see the full list of participants here: https://lnkd.in/e6EVfAWA