March 29, 2023
A new music scholarship honouring Cherbourg music legend Uncle Dennis “Mop” Conlon was announced on Tuesday night at the Queensland Music Awards in Brisbane.
Uncle Dennis, from Mop And The Dropouts, died in September last year.
The $15,000 scholarship will be funded by the State Government but will be delivered by QMusic.
It aims to support a new generation of First Nations musicians.
Applications for the “Dennis ‘Mop’ Conlon Scholarship” will open on April 4.
More information will be published soon on the QMusic website
The latest scholarship joins three others already offered by QMusic: the Grant McLennan Fellowship (to travel to New York, London or Berlin to develop artistic skills), the Billy Thorpe Scholarship (for an emerging Queensland-based contemporary musician or band) and the Carol Lloyd Award (for a female-identifying or non-binary singer-songwriter).
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