10,000 Gigs Grant & Nomination for Best Regional Music Venue

Duration: 2024-2025

10,000 Gigs: The Victorian Gig Fund

We are very pleased to announce that The Coolroom has received a grant under the 10,000 Gigs: The Victorian Gig Fund which will support 20 gigs over the next nine months in the The Coolroom. s over the next few months we have already announced that will recieve this support includes Jesse Lawrance Music, Sally Ford and the Idiomatics, Hetty Kate Trio, Peter and the Wolves, and lots more to come.

The first round of 10,000 Gigs: The Victorian Gig Fund will fund 144 venues to stage paid gigs by local artists. Venues awarded grants include iconic Melbourne venues such as The Tote, The Jazzlab, Mamma Chen’s and Laundry, regional venues like Ballarat’s Volta, Barwon Heads Hotel and Theatre Royal, Taproom and The Coolroom in Castlemaine, along with suburban venues including Narre Warren’s District 14.

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Best Regional Venue/ Presenter (Over 50 Gigs).

We are also very pleased to announce we have been short listed for Music Victoria 2024 Awards Nominee: Best Regional Venue/ Presenter (Over 50 Gigs). This nomination is recognition, we believe, for the tireless work our venue has done to create a program that connects our regional audience with the best in small venue acts possible in our active listening venue.

We have embraced music from a range of genres from jazz to experimental, from country to blues, world music and singer songwriter, nurturing both local talent and some of the best of Melbourne and touring acts from elsewhere, whilst providing a venue for new work, album launches and regular income for musicians.