Grace Goodwin

Experience

• 

  Percussionist

  Jan 2014 - now

  Percussionist

  Percussionist with a DJ.I am part of a collective who travel all over the world providing Ibiza style entertainment for parties, weddings and corporate events. My work has taken me to places like Italy, Greece, Croatia and France.

• 

  Sound Affects Music

  Sept 2017 - Feb 2018

  Drum Tutor
• 

  The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

  Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

  Admissions Officer
• 

  Brighter Sound

  Nov 2020 - Sept 2022

  Record Label Manager

  I set up Both Sides Records for the Manchester based music charity Brighter Sound. The label aims to address the gender/regional imbalance within the industry by supporting and working with women and marginalised genders. I curated three releases including a full studio album with the band Stealing Sheep, which gained national coverage and radio play. This also included a limited ed 250 release vinyl which was exclusive to Rough Trade stores. I also mentored all of our artists through their releases, leading weekly one on one session with them to create career plans and set goals. Show less

• 

  Liverpool City Region Music Board

  Dec 2021 - now

  Gender equality sub-group member

  I have recently joined the Liverpool City region music board's gender equality subgroup. We are working on a manifesto to promote active change in the city region. I will be talking about the manifesto at Sound City festival in April 2022.

• 

  Future Yard CIC

  Jul 2022 - now

  Artist Mentor

  I am an artist mentor on the Propellor programme. I lead online sessions on music business and industry practices such as release strategies, metadata, registering a release. I also support young musicians with one on one mentoring sessions where we set career goals and work towards future releases.

• 

  PRS Foundation

  Jan 2023 - now

  Assessing funding applications for PRS foundation including Momentum and Accelerator

  • Board Member

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Assesor

    Jan 2023 - Sept 2024
• 

  University of Liverpool

  Feb 2023 - now

  PHD Researcher

  PHD researcher looking into regional gender inequality in the music industry Funded by the Dave Laing scholarship

• 

  Live Music Mapping Project (LMMP)

  Mar 2023 - now

  Research Assistant

  Working alongside Dr Mat Flynn to support on updating the Liverpool City Region music venues map. Collaborating with cities across the UK and Europe to consider the importance of live music venues to cultural strategies and communities: https://livemusicresearch.org

• 

  Music Cities Network

  May 2023 - now

  European Music Business Task Force

  The Task Force will meet in person and online to engage with various current challenges and opportunities in the music industry. On the basis of this groundwork, we will then actively participate during the following music industry festivals as part of the learning process facilitated by the creative leadership experts KaosPilots (five nights at each event):Workshop 1: SPOT Festival and the SPOT+ Festival conference in Aarhus, Denmark (5th - 6th of May 2023).Workshop 2: Reeperbahn Festival and the Reeperbahn Festival Conference in Hamburg, Germany (20th - 23rd of September 2023).Workshop 3: Iceland Airwaves and the Airwaves Pro Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland (2nd - 4th of November 2023).Workshop 4: Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) and the ESNS Conference in Groningen, Netherlands (2024). Workshop 5: Tallinn Music Week and Conference in Tallinn, Estonia (2024) Show less

• 

  GENIE (Gender Equality Networks In Europe)

  Mar 2024 - now

  Founder

  Grace is the founder of GENIE, an online database of over 400 projects across 26 countries supporting with gender equity in music.www.geniedatabase.com