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Hi Per, Im looking into grants myself, and tough i live in Norway there might be similarities to where and how to apply. Is there a special organisation you are applying to? Most of the grants i have found here (norway) are difficult to get access to if you not already are a professional musician. As for one time i applied to get a grant to go to the states to study Sitar with Roop Verma, i had a personal recomandation from Roopji, and all looked swell, but it was a no go, no grant since im not a professional Norwegian sitarplayer, how odd up is that? However a swedish sitarstudent almost got a grant thrown after him when he applied to go to the same place. guess im on the wrong side of the border : ( Jan Pċ 1. mar. 2005 kl. 23.00 skrev Per Boysen: > Hi Bernhard, > > As you know I applied for a Swedish public grant to cover up for > travel costs to come and play in August. Now they answered back and > said that they could not take any decision because I "had not filled > out the form correctly, since I had left the text area for gage > blank". Next meeting will be on May 20 and if I get back to them with > a sum for "gage" I will probably get the grant for travel costs. > > I called them up and they told me that they have to get the figure > because they have this political goal to not support "bad" venues that > pay musicians too little money. Personally I think that is a good > idea, but the reality is that I and many other musicians don't think > that it's such a great idea to base a creative lifestyle aiming at > creating unusual music on the income you can make as a musician. > Trying that is just stupid and very uncreative in the long run. Their > way of thinking make sense when applied to commercial forms of music > or institutionalized music (playing in symph orchestras etc). I told > them that I was going to play "on the door", sell CDs and also play > another gig in Italy that will bring some money in (which is true) and > also that I value the Zürich Loopfest very high for promotional > matters. So the guy actually said "just give us a sum for the gage and > it will be fine with help for your travel costs". > > I don't think they need to se a copy of a contract so my idea is to > simply mail them an estimated figure. There is a "Club gig norm" here > of SEK 1650 (USD 240) and that's the figure I'm planning to give them. > That's the lowest you can go without breaking the rules and > disqualifying for the grant support ;-) > > Myself I never thought about getting paid for playing, really. That > would not be possible with an expensive venue and that many > performers. But the Swedish support group have to follow the rules, > I'm afraid. So I'll "estimate the gage" and send them the figure, but > I really can't take any money in reality, unless all your costs are > first paid for and all performers are sharing the rest equally. > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > --- > http://www.looproom.com (international) > http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site) > http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen >