Keychange is an international campaign which invests in emerging talent whilst encouraging music festivals and a range of music organisations to sign up to a 50:50 gender balance pledge by 2022. Since Keychange launched its pledge in 2018, more than 150 festivals have signed up committing to programming gender balanced line-ups across their stages and conference panels by 2022.
BackStage has pledged to support woman in all aspect of the creation and presentation of music for BackStage - composers, performers, production and promotion. We pledge to have 50/50 representation in all aspects of this work across our yearly series - so 50/50 representation of composers presented, artists performing and behind the scenes workers. In our role as mentors to a new generation of musicians and curators we pledge ensure that this issue is always discussed as part of programming decisions.