The F-List for Music CIC
The F-List for Music is a not-for-profit community interest company that I founded in 2020. It runs a searchable directory of 6,500 women and gender-diverse musicians in the UK, across all genres of music.
Our aims
- To raise awareness, by developing The F-List as the most comprehensive directory of women and gender-diverse musicians in the UK
- To create initiatives, independently and in partnership with other organisations, that provide training and career development opportunities
- To become a leading authority on gender equality in music
- To increase knowledge, by researching gender inequality through the Gender in Music Research Hub
Our Presidents
We were honoured that Anoushka Shankar was our inaugural President, followed by Brix Smith (of The Fall), Professor Shirley J Thompson OBE, Hannah Peel, Miranda Cooper, and DJ Paulette: all incredible musicians who have lent their voices and reputations to amplifying our work.
Our impact
Through our funded programmes, The F-List has supported hundreds of women and gender-diverse musicians to develop their careers, through mentoring, workshops, performance opportunities and professional networks. Our projects include:
- Youth Industry Network: a mentoring programme funded by Youth Music, connecting young musicians with experienced women and gender-diverse industry professionals. It has run in Darlington, Wolverhampton and Croydon, and now operates in the Tees Valley, the East Midlands, and East and South London.
- Sapphic Voices: an Arts Council England-funded project in partnership with Out and Wild festival, supporting women and gender-diverse musicians across Devon and Cornwall, with performances at Exeter Pride and Cornwall Pride.
- Summer in Nashville: an Arts Council England-funded collaboration with Summer in Nashville festivals, delivering mentoring and online workshops for six early-career Americana artists.
- Sony Music Publishing sample camps: three days of writing and recording in Sony Music Publishing’s studios in King’s Cross for 18 women musicians and producers.
We are now developing a Cornwall Women in Music network, which we hope will become a model for F-List regional hubs across the UK.
Find out more
If you have any questions, or would like to support our work, please get in touch.