Select a state to explore opportunities
Choose from the sidebar or dropdown above — or select "National" for programs open to all US musiciansGrants, residencies, performance calls, competitions, and career development for independent musicians — across all genres, all 50 states. From jazz to folk, blues to classical, roots to endangered world traditions.
Select a state to explore opportunities
Choose from the sidebar or dropdown above — or select "National" for programs open to all US musiciansKnow of a grant, residency, performance call, or career development program not listed? Help build this resource for every musician who finds their way here.
Core national organizations providing funding, advocacy, and opportunities for musicians in every state and every genre. These anchor the state-level research in the browser above.
The Song of the Day archive at onecuriousworld.com was built on a single conviction: that music worth hearing deserves more than algorithmic invisibility. Every day we spotlight a track from a tradition, community, or corner of the world that streaming platforms have no incentive to surface.
This directory is the practical companion to that mission. Every listing has been researched by hand — not just the state arts council link, but the specific fellowship, the residency with a recording studio, the competition that welcomes endangered traditional forms, the grant that says yes to the mbira player and the shape-note singer and the Cajun fiddler.
If you know of an opportunity not listed here, use the submit form above. This resource grows because musicians build it for each other.
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