The Bob Dylan Heart and Common Music Publishing Group have introduced the inaugural Bob Dylan Heart Songwriter Fellowship, created to develop rising expertise chosen by a world-class panel of songwriters, together with John Mellencamp and Nas.
The Bob Dylan Heart (BDC) and Common Music Publishing Group (UMPG) have joined forces to launch the Bob Dylan Heart Songwriter Fellowship. Introduced at this time by BDC Director Steven Jenkins and UMPG Chief Working Officer Marc Cimino, the Fellowship was created to mentor and develop aspiring songwriters and is awarded yearly to 2 recipients.
Every Fellowship consists of a $40,000 undertaking stipend, public engagement, and presentation alternatives, devoted time within the Bob Dylan Heart’s Bob Dylan Archive to check Dylan’s inventive course of, roundtrip airfare to Tulsa, and lodging within the metropolis, mentorship from UMPG songwriters and executives, and recording time in Tulsa’s historic The Church Studio, the well-known studio of Leon Russell.
Annual Fellowship recipients shall be chosen by a worldwide panel of artists, together with French singer-songwriter Juliette Armanet, American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, Mexican singer-songwriter Carla Morrison, and American rapper-songwriter Nas.
“The Bob Dylan Heart Songwriter Fellowship is core to our mission of teaching, motivating, and provoking guests to interact their very own capability as creators, and we can not wait to listen to the entries from undiscovered expertise all over the world,” says BDC Director Steven Jenkins.
“We’re grateful to proceed our partnership with UMPG — the world’s main music writer is already such an ideal supporter of the BDC — and we all know that this panel of extraordinary songwriters will choose deserving Fellows for our inaugural yr.”
UMPG Chief Working Officer Marc Cimino provides: “That is an unprecedented alternative to attach creating expertise with the works of one of many biggest songwriters of all time. Past entry to significant mentorship and particular sources, the archives on the Bob Dylan Heart are indescribable, and I can solely think about how a lot inventive inspiration they may draw. With the assist of the unbelievable BDC group and panel of world-class artists, we sit up for creating a brand new group of songwriters on this distinctive surroundings.”
Eligible expertise worldwide can submit entries for consideration for a Fellowship starting now by October 18, 2023. Entrants have to be 18 years or older and unsigned to a publishing settlement of any variety on the time of the Fellowship begin date, Could 1, 2024. Additional particulars and full guidelines and restrictions could be discovered on the Bob Dylan Heart web site.