Icelandic Musicians Awarded COVID-19 Recovery Grants

Grants for Icelandic musicians have been announced as part of the Icelandic government’s post-coronavirus economic recovery programme. The 81 million ISK fund will be shared between 162 musical projects.

Minister for Education and Culture, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir released the full list of grant recipients yesterday, June 9th. The ministry received 540 requests for funding totalling over 400 million ISK, meaning around 30% of applications proved successful.

The highest grants of 1 million ISK (€6,680) each were awarded to eight projects:

Agent Fresco’s third album

Andres Thor Gunnlaugsson’s concert series in Hafnarborg

Brák Baroque Ensemble

Hatari’s upcoming EP

Kristjana Stefánsdóttir’s Big Band

Pera Opera Collective

Pétur Sigurþór Jónsson

Ragna Kjartansdóttir

A further 28 projects received grants of 600,000 ISK, including feminist hip-hop collective Reykjavikurdaetur who are planning a Youtube show.

You can expect to hear some great music coming out of Iceland over the course of the next year.

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