Grant Writing for Musicians: Leveraging AI to Enhance Funding Requests

Grant Writing for Musicians: Leveraging AI to Enhance Funding Requests

by Erin Walker Bliss

Percussive Notes

Volume 63 

No. 5

October

2025

Erin Walker Bliss is a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky, who holds a DMA in Percussion Performance and a PhD in Musicology/Ethnomusicology. She has presented research on Scottish pipe bands and collective identity at international conferences for the International Bagpipe Organisation, Musica Scotica, Music in 19th-Century Britain, IASPM, SEM, CMS, PAS, and Berklee City Music Network. Erin also serves as the Executive Director of the Central Music Academy, a nonprofit offering free music programs for underserved youth. In that capacity, she consults on arts leadership and philanthropy and has reviewed grants for the NEA, South Arts, and local agencies.

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127 E. Michigan St. #600
Indianapolis, IN 46204
T: (317) 974-4488
F: (317) 974-4499
E: percarts@pas.org

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127 E. Michigan St. #600
Indianapolis, IN 46204
T: (317) 974-4488
F: (317) 974-4499
E: percarts@pas.org


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