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MMF announces 2022 Accelerator Programme participants
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 10 February 2022
The UK’s Music Managers Forum has announced the 24 artist managers who will participate in its 2022 Accelerator Programme. Each will receive a grant of up to £15,000, plus professional development training from providers including CMU Insights, aiming to help them to grow their individual management businesses.
“I’m so pleased to reveal our 24 new Accelerator participants”, says the programme’s manager Paul Bonham. “This awesome entrepreneurial bunch already represents an amazing array of talent from the widest range of genres”.
“Our goal with the programme”, he adds, “will be to bring them together, and to provide the finance and expert-led training that will help them expand their businesses and allow them to learn from each other. I’m incredibly proud of what Accelerator has achieved so far, and I’m really excited for how 2022’s intake will progress”.
This year’s participants in the programme – which is supported by YouTube Music, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland and the Scottish Music Industry Association – are as follows:
Abi Getto (Rinzen, Perel, Tim Green, Tom Jarmey)
Adrian Thomas (Nino SLG, Hargo, Idi Akz)
Anique Cox (Bree Runway)
Alessia Avallone (Anoushka Shankar, Lyra Pramuk, Gigi Masin, Ron Trent, Paquita Gordon, Soundwalk Collective, Carmen Villain, Huerco S)
Cecile Dreyer (Misty Boyce, Dresage, CHILD + the banned, Aysedeniz Gokcin)
Charlene Hegarty (New Pagans, Gemma Bradley, Kitt Philippa, The Darkling Air)
Cillian Farrell (Sainté, Chucks, Elevated, Lucid)
Cleo Amedume (Chrissi, Detonate, Freemonk, Yardes)
Daryl Pryor (Yours Truly, Between You & Me, TEETH, Up Late)
Gina Akers (Mellowmatic, JFB, Jurassic 5’s Soup presents: Fullee Love Collective, The Tribe)
Hamish Fingland (Lucia & The Best Boys, The Ninth Wave, Walt Disco)
Henry Carden (Cattle & Cane, Joe Hammill, Jodie Nicholson and Mt. Misery)
India Allen (John Greenham, Tess Greenham, Kyle Mangels, Rules, Maddy Abela, Liv Dawson)
Kate Piatkowska (Cellar Darling, NO:IR, Kassogtha, Tar Pond)
Lucy Fitzgerald (Lennixx, WOOZE, Goat Girl, whenyoung, Rudi Salmon)
Maria Torres (Sinead O’Brien, Grandmas House, keaton dekker, My Life As A Moth)
Naomi Belshaw (Dani Howard, Joseph Phibbs, Kemal Yusuf, Steven Daverson, Arthur Keegan-Bole, Garry DW Judd, Diana Yukawa)
Pascal Balletti (ENNY, TyeGreen)
Rapheal Adekunle (S1MBA, S1LVA, Harri Jay)
Rich Goodwin (The Reytons)
Sim Virdi (Wonky Logic, Ed Begley, Kefaya)
Steven Odufuye (Jords, Mike Brainchild & Kadiata)
Thando Zulu (Jerub, Beka, Joel Baker)
Yasin El Ashrafi (Harri Georgio, Maniscooler, Ffion Rebecca, Jada O’Neill, Alice Kübe, Flynny O’Flynn, Priv OTB, Tayo B)
