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THE UK'S LARGEST INDEPENDENT BACKER for new music is supporting a pilot scheme to place eight music promoters with a number of London-based arts organisations.

The PRS Foundation's New Music Plus scheme will launch on April 21 and will see the independent promoters who have been curating their own live music events paired with groups including the Roundhouse, the Serpentine Gallery, The Big Chill and the South Bank.

PRS Foundation communications and projects officer Clarissa Carlyon says there is a tradition for curators in the visual arts and this project, which will involve the arts organisations training and mentoring their producer collaborators, will "highlight the role of the producer in live music".

She explains that the PRS Foundation is looking for people with a slightly different approach to curation, rather than ...

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