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U.K. Artists Say the Government’s Support for Music Education Is Declining. Experts Say They’re Right

U.K. artists like Myles Smith and Sam Fender have argued that government support for music education is declining. Experts weigh in on their claims.

Also speaking up at the BRITS was jazz band Ezra Collective, whose members shouted out youth clubs that give teenagers extra-curricular opportunities to learn music skills following its triumph in the group of the year category. “We need to keep the fundraising efforts to top up the shortfall between what the government give us to run a state secondary school and the contribution we receive annually from our founding funding partners, The BRIT Trust,” Cruickshank wrote. Speaking to The Sunday Times last month, the high-flying rocker claimed that the U.K.’s music industry is “80%, 90% kids who are privately educated,” and that a young musician from his hometown in the north east of England “will not be seen because it’s rigged.”

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