WELCOME TO CARDIFF MUSIC CITY
Music industry updates from Cardiff, Wales.
All the best pictures as Cardiff Music City Festival 2025 wraps up
Cardiff Music City Festival (3-18 October 2025) – a two-week celebration of music that brought global stars, local legends, fresh new talent and thousands of music fans to venues across the city – has wrapped up after a successful second year.
Funding scheme to encourage more grassroots gigs in Cardiff returns
Cardiff’s music scene is set to get another boost in 2026 as Cardiff Council’s ALLBWN / OUTPUT funding scheme returns, following a successful pilot earlier this year, with an expanded remit to support new and emerging electronic artists and DJs, as well as gigs.
Applications open for second round of Cardiff’s Grassroots Music Venue Fund
The ‘Cardiff Grassroots Venue Fund’ offers capital grants of up to £7,500 to help venues become more financially and environmentally sustainable, with strategic projects exceeding £7,500 also considered.
WHAT IS A MUSIC CITY?
Cardiff is one of the fastest-growing cities in the UK and aspires to be a leader in the music cities movement, a standard of urban development which champions and promotes music as a tool for growth.
BEHIND THE SCENE
We’ve been going Behind The Scene of the capital’s music ecosystem. Read on, as we’ll be catching up with artists (either heralding from, or connected to the city), as well the capital’s promoters, venue owners, managers, studios and other music industry professionals…
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