{"id":447,"date":"2018-02-28T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:22:19","slug":"irish-youth-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/irish-youth-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Youth Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ember4109\" class=\"ember-view\">One of the most satisfying aspects of my job is discovering new Irish acts and one of our goals for 2017 was to open our legendary &#8216;Studio 8&#8217; recording space to as many unsigned &amp; independent Irish acts as possible. One project to benefit from this was the \u2018Irish Youth Music Awards\u2019. The IMYA\u2019s is a community based youth music project for teen bands and musicians aged 12-19 years old, across the whole island of Ireland. It is a music led, music based project which honours the most effective music projects run by groups of young people each year. The principle aim of IYMA is to give young musicians access to industry professionals to benefit from their advice and knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember4109\" class=\"ember-view\">Last year over 15,000 young people engaged in the initiative and it is still growing. The 2018 IYMAs National Day is set for April 21st in Croke Park. IYMAs partners and supporters include The Department of Children and Youth Affairs, RT\u00c9 2FM, BIMM Institute Dublin, <\/span><a id=\"ember4112\" class=\"feed-link feed-shared-main-content__mention ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/1337\/\" data-control-name=\"mention\"><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniCompany:1337\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span id=\"ember4114\" class=\"ember-view\">\u00a0Learning, IMRO, Music Maker, Gaisce \u2013 The President\u2019s Award and Youth Action Northern Ireland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyyPTKApYlw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember4114\" class=\"ember-view\">With that in mind I\u2019m proud to announce that we will broadcast the Studio 8 session with 2017 IYMAs recipients &#8216;Liquid Space&#8217; this Wednesday February 21st!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most satisfying aspects of my job is discovering new Irish acts and one of our goals for 2017 was to open our legendary &#8216;Studio 8&#8217; recording space to as many unsigned &amp; independent Irish acts as possible. One project to benefit from this was the \u2018Irish Youth Music Awards\u2019. The IMYA\u2019s is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IYMA-1100x732.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}