Help Musicians recognises that while musicians are unable to perform, providing opportunities to create and develop can guide them make their next career move, help to form new avenues of income, and be vital to maintaining good mental health. Having run a third round of Do It Differently Fund in August, we are delighted to announce support of a further 53 acts who will receive music project funding, business advice and wellbeing support.

Many projects funded in this round of Do It Differently reflect on the challenging year they’ve had and have used their experiences as a source of inspiration. These include expanding a project fusing yoga and music together as means of maintaining mental and physical health; using technical music composition along with vector projection mapping to create a 3D immersive hologram projection showcasing the literal and emotional states of separation we have all experienced over the last year; and recording a four track EP inspired by the lightscapes in our natural world.

Awardee Adina Nelu said: “This award comes at a time when many musicians, myself included, have been questioning the relevance of their work at a time of crisis. Receiving this award now goes beyond just supporting the creation of new work — it comes as a confirmation that my work matters and is worth supporting after all. For an emerging musician such as myself, this will have made all the difference.”

Each Do it Differently awardee has shown a clear entrepreneurial approach to their work by adapting the promotional and marketing aspects of their projects to the current climate. The Do It Differently package of support offers business guidance to bolster this thinking, delivered by one-to-one by music industry business advisors, coordinated by ThinkMusic. Recipients will each receive a fully subsidised Pro Membership to Featured Artist Coalition, and the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine’s offer of online education tools will help support their health and wellbeing.

Applications are currently open for Round 4 of Do it Differently - click here for more information.

Looking for inspiration? See below for the full list of funded artists and their projects:

The Howlers - an alternative band from Hampshire, will be completing and releasing their first vinyl, while working on a new Covid adapted marketing strategy including the creation of music videos.

Adina Nelu - a Salford-based classical composer, will be addressing the quality of her creative output, by focusing on the creation and promotion of a female-centered vocal EP aimed at re-evaluating her inherited definition of a composer.

Snowy - a Grime MC from Nottingham, will be co-creating a joint EP with artist, Frost, following Nottingham’s own genre, Greeze.

Allegra - a jazz singer from Fylde, will use the Fund to release her next two singles.

DREUW – a folk singer-songwriter from Leeds, will be working on a E.P to be released in early 2021, working with a photographer and videographer to create artwork, promotional content and a documentary recording the experience.

Du Blonde – a London rock singer-songwriter, will be self-releasing an album comprised of 13 melodic garage rock songs that focus predominantly on the subjects of mental health and inhibition.

Carol Jarvis - a Oxfordshire trombonist, will work on a new album project, bringing together all aspects of her career; jazz, classical, pop and electronic elements.

Cat Myers – a Scotland-based drummer, will be honing her body of instrumental work into an album, writing and recording the majority in her home studio and the rest at Slateroom Studios with Garry Boyle.

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian – a Suffolk classical composer, will be mixing and mastering her debut classical album for release in Spring 2021 with NMC Recordings.

Chloe Foy – a folk songwriter from Cheltenham, will be creating a series of monthly livestream concerts in the Autumn/Winter of 2020 to engage audiences and build her fanbase ahead of her debut album release in 2021.

Liz Hanks – a Sheffield-based cellist, will be using explorative cello techniques, experimental recording techniques, field recordings and sound manipulation to compose, record and promote a solo cello album.

Eve Goodman - a Welsh folk singer, will be working on a new album project raising awareness about suicide and the grieving process, underpinned by a sense of hope and rising up again.

Frank Farrell - a Warwickshire-based music producer, will be reigniting an old project and working on his brand identity.

Dark Tropics – a pop-noir duo from Northern Ireland, will be creating high-quality video content for their third single along with PR services for both the video and single to maintain momentum without the aid of live performances.

Hannah Ashcroft- a Manchester indie/folk musician, will be recording a professionally filmed, studio quality live session to support the release of her single and run a professional PR campaign to engage with her fanbase.

Cherym – a feminist pop-punk trio from Derry, will hire a team of creatives and PR professionals to create a high-quality campaign to promote their new recordings in 2021 to combat their lost live performance promotion opportunities.

Hugh Sheehan – a Birmingham-based musician and composer, will be recording and releasing a debut album, a folk song cycle interspersed with audio from interviews conducted with Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community.

Green Gardens – a Leeds alternative 4-piece band, will release six singles individually along with music videos and merchandise.

T8PES – a MC from Staffordshire, will be further developing the T8PES sound and brand by experimenting sonically with other producers and artists.

Rookes - a London-based pop artist, will be completing, promoting and digitally distributing a new album #popnotpop

Jordan Nocturne – a Belfast-based music producer, will be releasing two EPs and developing additional marketing assets for these in the form of video and merchandise to maintain visibility and create an additional revenue stream.

Joseph Lawrenson – a London classical songwriter, composer and producer, will be creating a four track EP of song arrangements of modern classical music and film scores.

United Strings of Europe - a London-based strings collective, will be planning a live-hosted virtual launch event for its debut album ‘In Motion’ that combines exclusive archive footage with new material.

Katie Malco – a Northampton-based singer-songwriter, will be recording and releasing a solo stripped-down version of all tracks from her debut album ‘Failures’.

Kayla Painter – an electronic composer, producer and sound design artist from Bristol, will be producing a new EP to be released in March 2021 digitally and on vinyl.

LOELASH – a London producer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, will be producing, recording, arranging and mixing his debut album “Fantasia”.
Loux – a London-based