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Katie Noonan music school receives funding boost

November 29, 20232 min read

Eumundi School of Music – owned by Australian singing songstress Katie Noonan – has shared in a combined $90,000 of community funding.

Anywhere Festival and The Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival were also successful in the Sunshine Coast Council’s Creative Industries Investment Program.

It follows a rigorous application process and the community groups are supported for two years.

Katie Noonan offers a free 10-week scholarship program to her students at the Eumundi school. It offers mentoring, stagecraft lessons, and live gig experiences to young artists.

Katie and her saxophonist husband Zac Hurren founded the school eight years ago. They hold the Eumundi School of Music Mini Festival each year – often with celebrity guests – to showcase the students talents.

And they have gifted music scholarships to almost 250 young people in that time.

Anywhere Festival scored a grant for its Creating Performance Makers Anywhere Program. It helps support 10 performance groups in theatre, music, cabaret, comedy, dance, poetry, and immersive works. 

The Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival will put their money towards a program of bespoke events staged in natural locations and intimate venues.

A place for artists like Katie Noonan to live and work

Arts portfolio Councillor Rick Baberowski says Council wants the Coast to be known for its inspiring creations. And as a place where arts practitioners can make a living.

Photo: Courtney Cleary performs at this year’s Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival, “Earth and Sky”.

“Each funded program will deliver for both artists and audiences, progressively developing a local arts ecology to foster and deliver significant cultural benefits,” Cr Baberowski says.

“(This program) provides important funding certainty to established arts organisations to develop and deliver a high-quality, diverse program of arts experiences that will further grow our creative industries capacity, audiences and participation.”

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