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Fiachna Ó Braonáin, Christy Moore, Ryan Sheridan and Jacqui Carroll at the launch of the prize in Dublin's Temple Bar RTE Press Office
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Fancy yourself as an up-and-coming musician? RTE is looking for you...

The second RAAP/RTE Breakthrough Bursary for emerging musicians will see €24,500 in prize money and guaranteed radio air play on RTE stations for the winners.

GOT SOME SKILLS on your musical instrument of choice? Think you’ve got what it takes to make it big?

The second annual RAAP/RTE Breakthrough Bursary competition has just been launched and is looking to find the best of Ireland’s emerging musicians.

The nationwide music performance competition will see €24,500 in prize money awarded to the winners, along with guaranteed air play on RTE’s radio stations. The winners of each of the four categories receive a €5,000 bursary to go towards furthering their musical career with nine runner-up prizes of €500 also to be awarded.

The competition is divided into four categories to cover a broad mixture of musical genres and to give musicians from every discipline a chance of winning.

Artists including Christy Moore, Fionn Regan, Aslan, Cathy Davey, Ryan Sheridan, and Fiachna Ó Braonáin of the Hothouse Flowers have all pledged their support for the competition.

Last year’s winners of the inaugural bursary were The Fallen Drakes (who won the Rock/Pop/Dance category), Sharon Carty (Classical/Jazz), FullSet (Traditional Irish/Folk) and Alice Jago (Country/Roots/Bluegrass).

Submissions will be judged by a large panel from the music industry, including Mary Black, Rick O’Shea, Niall Byrne of Nialler9.com, Cormac Battle and Paul Walsh of RoySeven.

Musicians have until 4pm on Thursday 9 August to submit their entries online. The shortlist from each category will be released on 14 September with the ultimate winners to be announced at a gala concert on 20 September.

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