The City of Kingston is seeking a qualified and experienced Consultant to develop a comprehensive Kingston Music Strategy. The Strategy will provide direction for the City and its key partners, by assessing the current music landscape; identifying best practices, current trends, anticipating potential challenges, opportunities as well as future priorities. The Kingston Music Strategy must be artist-centred and appropriate to a mid-sized Canadian city and provide clear, achievable, and sustainable direction regarding how best to realize the full potential of the local music ecology and economy.
The Music Strategy will engage interested and affected persons and parties to provide clear and sustainable direction to realize the full potential and benefits of a thriving local music ecology and industry that considers its long-term viability, growth, and sustainability. The proposed Strategy should be artist-centred and appropriate to a mid-sized Canadian city.
The Music Strategy will provide a plan for the City of Kingston and its key partners, by assessing the current music landscape, identifying best practices, current trends, anticipating potential challenges, opportunities as well as future priorities. A Music Strategy for the City should also include at least the following focus areas: (1) Research and Discovery; (2) Public Engagement; (3) Themes and Concepts; and (4) Recommendations and Implementation Plan.

