Grass Roots Music Venues have intrinsic cultural value. They provide shared social experiences. They offer emerging artists their first opportunities, and they stimulate local economies.
The UKRI-AHRC CoSTAR National Lab (CNSL) and the UKRI-AHRC MusicFutures Creative Cluster (Liverpool City Region) are now inviting UK-based companies to develop and pilot creative and technologically innovative ideas that will start to address the challenges faced by grass roots music venues. They are seeking ideas that can extend the reach of grass roots venues, that can connect artists and audiences in new ways inside grass roots venues, and that point toward new portable and scalable business models and solutions.
This is an opportunity for companies to develop, test and own IP that they can then go onto commercialise. Selected companies will be provided with extensive research conducted by CoSTAR National Lab across the UK’s live music sector and dedicated access to our technical infrastructure and research teams to deliver their ideas.
