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BackStage Music is an artist-run concert platform that nurtures the grassroots of creative art music in Australia. We provide a platform for musicians of diverse backgrounds, career stages and musical genres to share their stories and create boundary expanding and stimulating musical shows that will be like nothing you’ve heard before. 

In our 2025 season we build on successes of recent years to build stronger, more meaningful collaborative relationships, particularly working with our First Nations colleagues and artists with disabilities. By providing opportunities for collaboration, developing leadership and curatorial skills, sharing knowledge, and the nurturing of young artists, we strive to energise and shape the future of the artform.

Funds raised will go directly towards developing and producing our 2025 season. Artists will be contracted in line with industry standards for performances and for the commissioning and creation of new work. Without this support, we cannot engage with these extraordinary people or pay them for their passion or talent. Your support will allow us to implement our Disability Inclusion and Access Plan and provide expert advice to develop an Aboriginal Cultural Plan. It will help us to continue developing a more professional artistic, production and administrative business model to reach a broader audience. With more philanthropic support Backstage will have the stability we need to plan ahead and continue to remunerate our artists for their work. Our goal is not to turn a profit, but to provide stability and structure for next season for our artists and audiences.

The Backstage Music business model:  

• Raise the funds to cover the basic costs of presenting a concert series.

• Commission and present a new composition.

• Curate an exciting series of concerts

• Build an audience

• Pay artists

With your support Backstage Music will cover the following costs:

• Venue Hire

• Ticketing and Promotion

• Public Liability Insurance

Audience development:
Vital to the success of the Backstage business model is the building of audience capacity through sharing networks between all artists in the series - creating an active community of listeners and followers of living music in Sydney. This is a grassroots model where the artists work together to promote their own work plus the work of their colleagues.

Thanks to our Supporters!

Through the generosity of our audience, funders and partner organisations, BackStage Music can support musicians with the ‘backstage’ work that is required to put on an event and establish a living space for our community to grow. Thanks to our Backstage community who have generously supported our series: